Effects of androgen on the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in the penile corpus cavernosum

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1381-1386

  Chang Hwang, Eu ^a,b   Oh, Kyung Jin ^a,b   Jung, Seung Il ^a,b   Kim, Noel N ^a,b   Ahn, Kyu Youn ^a,b   Park, Kwangsung ^a,b  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79957914628     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.01.036     Document Type: Article

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