Effects of a Water-Soluble Curcumin Protein Conjugate vs. Pure Curcumin in a Diabetic Model of Erectile Dysfunction

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1815-1833

  Abdel Aziz, Mohamed Talaat ^a   Motawi, Tarek ^a   Rezq, Ameen ^a   Mostafa, Taymour ^a   Fouad, Hanan H ^a   Ahmed, Hanan H ^a   Rashed, Laila ^a   Sabry, Dina ^a   Senbel, Amira ^b   Al Malki, A ^c   El Shafiey, Raghda ^d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Alexandria University Faculty of Pharmacy   (Egypt)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Beni Suef University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

CGMP; Diabetes mellitus; Diferuloylmethane; Erectile dysfunction; Heme oxygenase; Intracavernosal pressure

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; CYCLIC GMP; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC; STREPTOZOCIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACAVERNOSAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84863534970     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02741.x     Document Type: Article

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