Y-27632 improves the erectile dysfunction with ageing in SD rats through adjusting the imbalance between nNo and the Rho-kinase pathways

Andrologia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 146-150

  Gao, B H ^a   Zhao, S T ^a   Meng, F W ^a   Shi, B K ^a   Liu, Y Q ^a   Xu, Z S ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; nNOS; Rho kinase; Western blot; Y 27632

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RHO KINASE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; INTRACAVERNOSAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; AMIDES; ANIMALS; IMPOTENCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 34547840238     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2007.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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