Effects of combined genistein and daidzein on EFS- and agonist-induced contractions of human prostate tissues. Contractions were induced by EFS (A), noradrenaline (B), phenylephrine (C), methoxamine (D), endothelin-1 (E) and U46619 (F) in the presence of 6 µM genistein plus 5 µM daidzein and corresponding amounts of solvent (DMSO) for the controls added 30 min before the construction of frequency and concentration–response curves. Data from experiments with tissues from n = 5 patients are shown in each diagram. In each experiment, tissue from one patient was allocated to the control and genistein + daidzein groups. Data are means ± SDs in frequency/concentration–response curves (p-values for whole groups from two-way ANOVA), and Emax, Ef50 and EC50 values are from all single experiments (calculated by curve fitting) in scatter plots (p-values from two-tailed t-tests).