The mechanism of opiorphin-induced experimental priapism in rats involves activation of the polyamine synthetic pathway

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kanika, Nirmala Devi ^a   Tar, Moses ^a   Tong, Yuehong ^a   Kuppam, Dwaraka Srinivasa Rao ^a   Melman, Arnold ^a   Davies, Kelvin Paul ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erectile; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamine; Sialorphin

Indexed keywords

1,3 PROPANEDIAMINE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; ARGINASE 1; ARGINASE II; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; OPIATE PEPTIDE; OPIORPHIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V; POLYAMINE; POLYAMINE OXIDASE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; GENE TRANSFER; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANIMALS; ARGINASE; DIAMINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; POLYAMINES; PRIAPISM; PUTRESCINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 70349904712     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00656.2008     Document Type: Article

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