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  • Title: Comparison of the pharmacological response of human corpus cavernosal tissue with the response of rabbit cavernosal tissue.
    Author: Levin RM, Hypolite JA, Broderick GA.
    Journal: Gen Pharmacol; 1995 Sep; 26(5):1107-11. PubMed ID: 7557258.
    Abstract:
    1. This study directly compares the response of cavernosal tissue obtained from sexually mature rabbits with the response of human corpus cavernosal tissue obtained during implant surgery for psychogenic impotence (five individual samples) to field stimulation and specific autonomic agonists. 2. At 2 g basal tension, field stimulation of the rabbit corpus cavernosal tissue produced a frequency dependent biphasic response consisting of an initial relaxation followed by contraction. Low frequency stimulation induced primarily relaxations whereas high frequency stimulation induced primarily contractions. FS of human corpus cavernosal tissue induced a frequency dependent contraction. 3. In general, the rabbit corpus cavernosal strips showed a significantly greater degree of spontaneous activity than the strips of human cavernosal tissue. 4. Phenylephrine stimulated a rapid and sustained increase in basal tension in both tissues. Although the isolated strips weighed the same, the magnitude of the response of the rabbit tissue was significantly greater than the response of the human tissue. 5. For both tissues, FS relaxations were completely inhibited by L-NAME showing that the relaxations were mediated by nitric oxide. Similarly, for both tissues, nitroprusside, ATP, and bethanechol induced similar dose-response relaxations of pre-stimulated tissue. 6. In conclusion, the major difference between the response of human and rabbit tissue to various forms of stimulation was that isolated strips of human corporal tissue responded to FS with contractions at all frequencies whereas the rabbit tissue responded to the relaxations at low frequencies of stimulation; a clear bi-phasic response at intermediate frequencies; and contraction at high frequencies.
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