Does tourniquet application alter the nitrergic responses of rabbit corpus cavernosum penis?

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-196

  Bozkurt, Nihan Burul ^a   Moralioglu, Serdar ^b   Vural, Ismail Mert ^b   Sarioglu, Yusuf ^b   Pekiner, Can ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ischemia; Nitrergic responses; Penile tourniquet; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM; INNERVATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NITRERGIC NERVE; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TIME; TOURNIQUET;

ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRERGIC NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PENIS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; TIME FACTORS; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 42349113833     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-007-0233-0     Document Type: Article

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