Intercellular gap junctions in corporal smooth muscle / 中华男科学杂志
National Journal of Andrology
;
(12): 136-138, 2002.
Artigo
em Chinês
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ABSTRACT
The contractility of corporal smooth muscle plays a critical role in human penile erectile process. Understanding the initiation, maintenance and modulation of corporal smooth muscle tone is a prequisite to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction. Despite this fact, indentification of both the precise mechanistic basis by which various agents exert their effects on individual corporal smooth muscle cells, moreover, the process by which these signals are spread among the diverse array of parenchymal cells in the paired corporal, remain somewhat of a physiological enigma. Therefore, this article aims at 1. to review current knowledge of the regulation of corporal smooth muscle tone at the cellular and molecular level; 2. to review various methods used in the study of gap junction channel.
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Assunto principal:
Pênis
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Fisiologia
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Junções Comunicantes
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Conexinas
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Biologia Celular
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Junções Intercelulares
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Músculo Liso
Limite:
Animais
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Chinês
Revista:
National Journal of Andrology
Ano de publicação:
2002
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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