Sonic Hedgehog Protein Is Decreased and Penile Morphology Is Altered in Prostatectomy and Diabetic Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Angeloni, Nicholas L ^a   Bond, Christopher W ^a   McVary, Kevin T ^b   Podlasek, Carol A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AZO COMPOUNDS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYL GREEN; PENIS; PIPERAZINES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PURINES; RATS; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFONES;

EID: 84881499623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070985     Document Type: Article

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