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ArticleThe journal of sexual medicine2011

Exercise training improves the defective centrally mediated erectile responses in rats with type I diabetes.

Hong Zheng, William G Mayhan, Kaushik P Patel

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Article in The journal of sexual medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  4. Influence of exercise training on ischemic brain injury in type 1 diabetic rats.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2012
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hong ZhengDepartment of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5850, USA.
William G Mayhan
Kaushik P Patel
University of Nebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

Influence of ExT on Cerebrovacsular Dysfunction in T1DR01HL090657 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI MAYHAN, WILLIAM G · 2009 to 2012
$1.5M
Exercise training improves erectile dysfunction in diabetes: role of central mechR01DK082956 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI PATEL, KAUSHIK P · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL090657NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK082956
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionErectile dysfunction is a serious and common complication of diabetes mellitus. Apart from the peripheral actions, central mechanisms are also responsible for the penile erection.

aimThe goal of the present study was to determine the impact of exercise training (ExT) on the centrally mediated erectile dysfunction in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced type I diabetic (T1D) rats.

methodsMale Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with STZ to induce diabetes mellitus. Three weeks after STZ or vehicle injections, rats were assigned to either ExT (treadmill running for 3-4 weeks) or sedentary groups to produce four experimental groups: control + sedentary, T1D + sedentary, control + ExT, and T1D + ExT.

main outcome measureAfter 3-4 weeks ExT, central N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) or sodium nitroprusside (SNP)-induced penile erectile responses were measured. Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) expression in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus was measured by using histochemistry, real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Western blot approaches.

resultsIn rats with T1D, ExT significantly improved the blunted erectile response, and the intracavernous pressure changes to NMDA (50 ng) microinjection within the PVN (T1D + ExT: 3.0 ± 0.6 penile erection/rat; T1D + sedentary: 0.5 ± 0.3 penile erection/rat within 20 minutes, P < 0.05). ExT improved erectile dysfunction induced by central administration of exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donor, SNP in T1D rats. Other behavior responses including yawning and stretching, induced by central NMDA and SNP microinjection were also significantly increased in T1D rats after ExT. Furthermore, we found that ExT restored the nNOS mRNA and protein expression in the PVN in T1D rats.

conclusionsThese results suggest that ExT may have beneficial effects on the erectile dysfunction in diabetes through improvement of NO bioavailability within the PVN. Thus, ExT may be used as therapeutic modality to up-regulate nNOS within the PVN and improve the central component of the erectile dysfunction in diabetes mellitus.

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AnimalsBlotting, WesternDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalErectile DysfunctionMaleNitric Oxide Synthase Type INitroprussideN-MethylaspartateParaventricular Hypothalamic NucleusPenile ErectionPhysical Conditioning, AnimalRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionTestosteroneNitric Oxide Synthase Type INitroprussideN-MethylaspartateTestosterone

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PMID21883945
PMCPMC3204168
OpenAlexW1916046198

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