Improved penile histology by phalloidin stain: Circular and longitudinal cavernous smooth muscles, dual-endothelium arteries, and erectile dysfunction-associated changes

Urology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 970.e1-970.e8

  Lin, Guiting ^a   Qiu, Xuefeng ^a,b   Fandel, Thomas M ^a   Albersen, Maarten ^a,c   Wang, Zhong ^d   Lue, Tom F ^a   Lin, Ching Shwun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXA 488; CD31 ANTIGEN; CELL ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; DYE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHALLOIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS SMOOTH MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DORSAL ROOT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NERVE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STAINING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 80053916514     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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