Abstract:
:The role of steroid hormones in regulating vaginal smooth muscle contractility was investigated. Rabbits were kept intact or ovariectomized. After 2 weeks, animals were continuously infused with vehicle or supraphysiological levels of testosterone (100 microg/day), or estradiol (200 microg/day), for an additional 2 weeks. The distal vaginal tissue was used to assess contractility in organ baths and changes in tissue structure were assessed by histology. Ovariectomized animals infused with vehicle exhibited significant atrophy of the muscularis and decreased epithelial height, resulting in thinning of the vaginal wall. Estradiol infusion increased epithelial height, comparable to that of intact animals, but only partially restored the muscularis layer. In contrast, testosterone infusion completely restored the muscularis layer, but only partially restored the epithelial height. In vaginal tissue strips contracted with norepinephrine and treated with bretylium, electrical field stimulation (EFS) caused frequency-dependent relaxation that was slightly attenuated with vehicle, significantly inhibited with estradiol and significantly enhanced with testosterone. VIP-induced relaxation was slightly attenuated in tissues from vehicle and estradiol-infused groups, but was enhanced in tissues from testosterone-infused animals. Contraction elicited by EFS or exogenous norepinephrine was not significantly altered with ovariectomy or steroid hormone infusion when data were normalized to potassium contraction. However, the tissue from testosterone-infused animals developed significantly greater contractile force to norepinephrine. These observations suggest that steroid hormones may be important regulators of vaginal tissue structure and contractility.
journal_name
Int J Impot Resjournal_title
International journal of impotence researchauthors
Kim NN,Min K,Pessina MA,Munarriz R,Goldstein I,Traish AMdoi
10.1038/sj.ijir.3901138subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-02-01 00:00:00pages
43-50issue
1eissn
0955-9930issn
1476-5489pii
3901138journal_volume
16pub_type
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更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
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更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2007-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00