Effects of icariin on improving erectile function in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2761-2772

  Liu, Tao ^a   Xin, Hua ^b   Li, Wei Ren ^a   Zhou, Feng ^a   Li, Guang Yong ^a   Gong, Yan Qing ^a   Gao, Zhe Zhu ^a   Qin, Xin Cheng ^c   Cui, Wan Shou ^a   Shindel, Alan W ^d   Xin, Zhong Cheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavernous Nerve Injury; Corpus Cavernosum; Diabetes; Endothelium; Erectile Function; Nitric Oxide Synthase; Smad; Smooth Muscle; Transforming Growth Factor beta

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ICARIIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 80053497770     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02421.x     Document Type: Article

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