Role of neural no synthase (NNOS) uncoupling in the dysfunctional nitrergic vasorelaxation of penile arteries from insulin-resistant obese zucker rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sánchez, Ana ^a   Contreras, Cristina ^a   Martínez, María Pilar ^a   Climent, Belén ^a   Benedito, Sara ^a   García Sacristán, Albino ^a   Hernández, Medardo ^a   Prieto, Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; APOCYNIN; ARGININE; CALCIUM; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; INSULIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SNARE PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; 5,6,7,8-TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; ACETOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; BIOPTERIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENIS ARTERY; PENIS ERECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE SECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; ZUCKER RAT; ANIMAL; ARTERY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULARIZATION;

ACETOPHENONES; ANIMALS; ARGININE; ARTERIES; BIOPTERIN; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NADPH OXIDASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENIS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPEROXIDES; VASODILATION;

EID: 84859994521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036027     Document Type: Article

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