Pentoxifylline promotes recovery of erectile function in a rat model of postprostatectomy erectile dysfunction

European Urology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 286-296

  Albersen, Maarten ^a,b   Fandel, Thomas M ^a   Zhang, Haiyang ^a   Banie, Lia ^a   Lin, Guiting ^a   De Ridder, Dirk ^b   Lin, Ching Shwun ^a   Lue, Tom F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cavernous nerve injury; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Cytokines; Erectile dysfunction; Fibrosis; Nerve regeneration; Pentoxifylline; Phosphodiesterase inhibitor; TGF beta; TNF alpha

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER IRRIGATION; CAVERNOUS NERVE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEEDING; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PENILE ERECTION; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 78650690458     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2010.10.034     Document Type: Article

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