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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Med. 2011 Jan 26;8(4):1048–1060. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02195.x

Figure 1. Verification of the effect of bilateral cavernosal nerve resection and sildenafil treatment on the smooth muscle content in the rat corpora cavernosa.

Figure 1

Homogenates from corpora cavernosa tissue, from the same animals employed for gene expression analysis, were subjected to western blot for alpha smooth muscle (α-SMA) expression. SHAM: sham-operated animals; BCNR: animals subjected to cavernosal nerve resection. BCNR+SIL: treated with sildenafil in drinking water and killed at 45 days after surgery. * p<0.05.