Anandamide improves the impaired nitric oxide-mediated neurogenic relaxation of the corpus cavernosum in diabetic rats: Involvement of cannabinoid CB1 and vanilloid VR1 receptors

BJU International

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1385-1390

  Ghasemi, Mehdi ^a   Sadeghipour, Hamed ^a   Dehpour, Ahmad R ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anandamide; Cannabinoids; Corpus cavernosum; Diabetes mellitus; L arginine; Nonadrenegic noncholinergic relaxation

Indexed keywords

1 (2,4 DICHLOROPHENYL) 5 (4 IODOPHENYL) 4 METHYL N (1 PIPERIDYL) 1H PYRAZOLE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; ANANDAMIDE; ARGININE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CAPSAZEPINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; IMPOTENCE, VASCULOGENIC; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE; PENILE ERECTION; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 35748985833     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07180.x     Document Type: Article

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