論文

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2021年1月28日

Dynamic erectile responses of a novel penile organ model utilizing two photon excitation microscopy (TPEM)†.

Biology of reproduction
  • Daiki Hashimoto
  • Tsuyoshi Hirashima
  • Hisao Yamamura
  • Tomoya Kataoka
  • Kota Fujimoto
  • Taiju Hyuga
  • Atsushi Yoshiki
  • Kazunori Kimura
  • Shunsuke Kuroki
  • Makoto Tachibana
  • Kentaro Suzuki
  • Nobuhiko Yamamoto
  • Shin Morioka
  • Takehiko Sasaki
  • Gen Yamada
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開始ページ
875
終了ページ
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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1093/biolre/ioab011

Male penis is required to become erect during copulation. In the upper (dorsal) part of penis, the erectile tissue termed corpus cavernosum (CC) plays fundamental roles for erection by regulating the inner blood flow. When blood flows into the CC, the microvascular complex termed sinusoidal space is reported to expand during erection. A novel in vitro explant system to analyze the dynamic erectile responses during contraction/relaxation is established. The current data show regulatory contraction/relaxation processes induced by phenylephrine (PE) and nitric oxide (NO) donor mimicking dynamic erectile responses by in vitro CC explants. Two photon excitation microscopy (TPEM) observation shows the synchronous movement of sinusoidal space and the entire CC. By taking advantages of the CC explant system, tadalafil (cialis) was shown to increase sinusoidal relaxation. Histopathological changes have been generally reported associating with erection in several pathological conditions. Various stressed statuses have been suggested to occur in the erectile responses by previous studies. The current CC explant model enables to analyze such conditions through directly manipulating CC in the repeated contraction/relaxation processes. Expression of oxidative stress marker and contraction related genes, Hif1a, Gpx1, RhoA, Rock was significantly increased in such repeated contraction/relaxation. Altogether, it is suggested that the system is valuable for analyzing structural changes and physiological responses to several regulators in the field of penile medicine.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioab011
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33511393
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1093/biolre/ioab011
  • PubMed ID : 33511393

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