Chronic alcoholism associated with diabetes impairs erectile function in rats

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1592-1597

  Lizarte, Fermino S ^a   Morgueti, Marcelo ^a   Tirapelli, Carlos R ^a   Claudino, Mario A ^b   Evora, Paulo R B ^a   Novais, Paulo C ^a   Tirapelli, Daniela P C ^a   Celotto, Andrea C ^a   Capellini, Verena K ^a   Celini, Fabia P M ^a   Tucci Jr, Silvio ^a   Cologna, Adauto J ^a   Antunes, Edson ^b   Martins, Antonio C P ^a   Tirapelli, Luis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chronic alcoholism; Diabetes mellitus; Erectile dysfunction; Rats

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; CRYOPROTECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMETRICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITROPRUSSIDE; PENIS; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77952148776     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.09084.x     Document Type: Article

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