The opposing roles of nitric oxide and cGMP in the age-associated decline in rat testicular steroidogenesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3914-3924

  Sokanovic, Srdjan J ^a   Baburski, Aleksandar Z ^a   Janjic, Marija M ^a   Stojkov, Natasa J ^a   Bjelic, Maja M ^a   Lalosevic, Dusan ^a   Andric, Silvana A ^a   Stojilkovic, Stanko S ^b   Kostic, Tatjana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; GUANYLYL CYCLASE 1B; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE III; PHOSPHODIESTERASE IV; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE G1; SILDENAFIL; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE I; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 5; FERTILITY AGENTS, MALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE 5 INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; TESTIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84884698087     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1307     Document Type: Article

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