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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Med. 2008 Dec 2;6(2):415–428. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.01105.x

Figure 6. Time course of the effect of bilateral cavernosal nerve resection on the cell turnover in the rat corpora cavernosa.

Figure 6

Penile corpora cavernosal sections adjacent to those presented on the preceding figures were subjected to TUNEL and PCNA staining. Top: QIA for TUNEL. Middle: QIA for PCNA; Bottom: The ratio between the total area occupied by cells undergoing cell replication (PCNA+) and the apoptotic index obtained above was established for each animal, and then used to calculate means+/-SEM. * p:<0.05; **: p<0.01; ***p<0.001