Vardenafil Enhances Oxytocin Expression in the Paraventricular Nucleus without Sexual Stimulation
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Vardenafil Enhances Oxytocin Expression in the Paraventricular Nucleus without Sexual Stimulation
PURPOSE Oxytocin is associated with the ability to form normal social attachments. c-Fos is an immediate early gene whose expression is used as a marker for stimulus-induced changes in neurons. The effect of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors on oxytocin activation in the brain without sexual stimuli has not yet been reported. In the present study, we investigated the effects of vardenafil ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Neurourology Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2093-6931
DOI: 10.5213/inj.2010.14.4.213