Comparisons of apomorphine-induced erection and spontaneous erection in rats by telemetric assessment of intracavernosal pressure
Comparisons of apomorphine-induced erection and spontaneous erection in rats by telemetric assessment of intracavernosal pressure
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10.1111/andr.12004
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发表时间:
2015-03-01
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4.5
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Lee, S. W.
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Choo, S. H.;Sung, H. H.;Lee, S. W.
Although there are several methods for assessing erectile function in rats, the standard methods for telemetric monitoring have not been established. Theoretically assessment of spontaneous erection (SE) seems to be a physiologic method but it needs long measuring time and additional efforts. Apomorphine-induced erection (AIE) is one available and simple method; however, the correlation with SE has not been assessed. We compared erection profiles of AIE and SE in normal and two disease rat models using telemetric assessment of intracavernosal pressure (ICP). Seven-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to normal control, diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypercholesterolemia (HC) group. After 19weeks a telemetric pressure sensor (C40; Data Sciences) was surgically implanted in the corpus cavernosum. One week later, ICP was recorded in freely moving rats after intraperitoneal apomorphine (100g/kg) injection (AIE) or during SE. Sexual events were visually identified and recorded. Only the pressure increases that occurred during sexual behavior were analyzed. We compared the erectile profiles such as duration, maximal ICP and the area under the curve (AUC, area under time x ICP curves). Two-way anova revealed no significant effect of the measuring methods on the mean AUC (F-1,F-43=2.756, p-value=0.104), but a significant effect of different disease models on mean AUC (two-way anova: F-2,F-43=12.929, p-value