GDNF-Transduced Schwann Cell Grafts Enhance Regeneration of Erectile Nerves

European Urology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1179-1187

  May, Florian ^a   Matiasek, Kaspar ^a   Vroemen, Maurice ^b   Caspers, Christiane ^b   Mrva, Thomas ^b   Arndt, Christian ^b   Schlenker, Boris ^a   Gais, Peter ^d   Brill, Thomas ^e   Buchner, Alexander ^a   Blesch, Armin ^f   Hartung, Rudolf ^b   Stief, Christian ^a   Gansbacher, Bernd ^e   Weidner, Norbert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Erection; GDNF; Gene therapy; Nerve grafts; Neurotrophic factor; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SILICON;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LAPAROTOMY; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCHWANN CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 55649083913     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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