Molecular pathophysiology and gene therapy of aging-related erectile dysfunction

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 39, Issue 11-12 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 1705-1712

  Gonzalez Cadavid, N F ^a,b   Rajfer, J ^a,b  

^a Harbor UCLA Res and Educ Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpora cavernosa; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Fibrosis; Hypothalamus; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; Penis; Phosphodiesterase; Protein inhibitor of nNOS

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC IMPOTENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENILE FIBROSIS; PENIS ERECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN OCCLUSION;

AGED; AGING; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROSIS; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PENIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9644299891     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.06.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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