Taurine enhances the sexual response and mating ability in aged male rats

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 776, Issue , 2013, Pages 347-355

  Yang, Jiancheng ^a   Lin, Shumei ^a   Feng, Ying ^a   Wu, Gaofeng ^a   Hu, Jianmin ^a  

^a SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TAURINE; FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION FREQUENCY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ERECTION FREQUENCY; ERECTION LATENCY; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; INTROMISSION FREQUENCY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MATING; MOUNT FREQUENCY; MOUNT LATENCY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; EJACULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; METABOLISM; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; EJACULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TAURINE; TESTOSTERONE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878778990     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6093-0_32     Document Type: Article

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