Does erectile tissue angioarchitecture modify with aging? an immunohistological and morphometric approach

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 833-840

  Costa, Carla ^a   Vendeira, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aging; Angioarchitecture; CavernousTissue; Erectile Dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PENILE BLOOD VESSEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 41649089762     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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