... was determined by simultaneous recordings of intravesical pressure under isovolumetric conditions and urethral perfusion pressure (UPP) in diabetic rats. The expression of α1-adrenoceptor, NGF, proNGF, low-affinity p75 receptor for neurotrophins (p75 NTR ) and sortilin in the urethras was measured using real...

... in a renal I/R model in rats. For this purpose, 21 male Wistar albino rats were separated into 3 groups: sham, placebo and tadalafil. A right nephrectomy was performed, and the left renal pedicles were occluded for 60 min and reperfused for 60 min in the placebo and tadalafil groups. A single dose...

...A. Farjam; J. Greven The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of the Α 2 -adrenoceptor antagonists yohimbine and idazoxan on kidney function in intact Sprague-Dawley rats and in Brattleboro rats with familial hypothalamic diabetes insipidus. Both drugs, injected intravenously...

.... This experimental study reports the differences between the histological alterations observed in the gastric patch transposed in the bladder both with its own pedicle and after deafferentation from the stomach. Materials and Methods: A group of 30 young male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent gastrocystoplasty...

...Takafumi Miura; Yasuhiko Kondo; Masao Akimoto; Yasuo Sakuma Electromyogram (EMG) recordings were made from the bulbospongiosus (BS) and ischiocavernosus (IC) muscles of the awake male rat in order to evaluate the roles played by these muscles in the implementation of penile intromission during...