Erectile tissue molecular alterations with aging - Differential activation of the p42/44 MAP kinase pathway

Age

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-130

  Castela, Ângela ^a   Soares, Raquel ^a   Rocha, Fátima ^a   Vendeira, Pedro ^b   Virag, Ronald ^c   Costa, Carla ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^c Centre d'Explorations et Traitements de l'Impuissance (CETI)   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Erectile dysfunction; Erectile tissue; p42 44 kinase; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PENIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79959541214     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-010-9167-3     Document Type: Article

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