Smooth muscle myosin expression, isoform composition, and functional activities in rat corpus cavernosum altered by the streptozotocin-induced type 1 diabetes

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 302, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Xinhua ^a,b   Kanika, Nirmala D ^a   Melman, Arnold ^a   DiSanto, Michael E ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cooper Medical School of Rowan University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blebbistatin; Cross bridge cycling; Erectile dysfunction; Smooth muscle relaxation

Indexed keywords

BLEBBISTATIN; MYOCARDIN; MYOSIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; MYOSIN TYPE II; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PENIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; SMOOTH MUSCLE MYOSINS; STREPTOZOCIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 83455198393     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00231.2011     Document Type: Article

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