Ultrastructural changes of penile cavernous tissue in multiple sclerotic rats

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2206-2214

  Jiang, Jun ^a   He, Yanzheng ^a   Jiang, Rui ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cavernous Tissue; Electron Microscope; Erectile Dysfunction; Multiple Sclerosis; Rat

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACAVERNOSAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; LEWIS RAT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PENIS; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PENIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68349135315     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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