Visualization of the neurovascular bundles and major pelvic ganglion with fluorescent tracers after penile injection in the rat

BJU International

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1048-1051

  Davila, Hugo H ^b,c   Mamcarz, Maggie ^c   Nadelhaft, Irving ^c   Salup, Raoul ^c   Lockhart, Jorge ^b   Carrion, Rafael E ^a,b,c  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystectomy; Fluoro Gold; Nerve tracer; Nerve sparing; Prostatectomy; Retrograde

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUORO RUBY; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CELL LABELING; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; GANGLION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; MALE; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; STAINING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; INJECTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 41049115202     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07344.x     Document Type: Article

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