Flow-Evoked Vasodilation Is Blunted in Penile Arteries from Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1789-1800

  Schjørring, Olav ^a   Kun, Attila ^a,b   Flyvbjerg, Allan ^c   Kirkeby, Hans Jørgen ^c   Jensen, Jørgen Bjerggaard ^c   Simonsen, Ulf ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Diabetes; Endothelium derived relaxing factors; Flow; Myogenic tone

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARGININE; IBERIOTOXIN; INDOMETACIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POTASSIUM ION; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PENIS ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEAR STRESS; ZUCKER DIABETIC FATTY RAT;

EID: 84863517951     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02743.x     Document Type: Article

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