Antioxidant treatment with α-tocopherol improves erectile function in hypertensive rats

Hypertension Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1007-1013

  Ushiyama, Masayuki ^a   Kuramochi, Tomoya ^a   Yagi, Shinji ^a   Katayama, Shigehiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide (CO); Erectile dysfunction (ED); Hypertension; Nitric oxide (NO); Spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC GMP; HEME OXYGENASE 2; HEME OXYGENASE INHIBITOR; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC GMP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HYPERTENSION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 46049116275     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.31.1007     Document Type: Article

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