Acute effects of hypercholesterolemic diet on erectile responses in rats

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-117

  Demir, Omer ^a   Murat, Nergis ^b   Soner, Burak Cem ^c   Demir, Tevfik ^a   Bal, Ersin ^d   Can, Ertan ^d   Gidener, Sedef ^c   Esen, Ahmet Adil ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Advanced Professional School of Health Sciences   (Turkey)

^c Cumhuriyet University Campus   (Turkey)

^d Tepecik Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cavernous nerve stimulation; Erectile dysfunction; High cholesterol diet; Hyperlipidemia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENDOTHELIUM; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTRACAVERNOUS PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 77955685383     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000296286     Document Type: Article

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