Journal article

Publication year: 1993

Pages: 217-222

Journal: Archives of andrology

Volume number: 31

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0148-5016

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3109/01485019308988402

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Abstract: 
Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) hits been suggested to play a role as a nonadrenergic, noncholinergic neurotransmitter or neuromodulator involved in the process of erection. Until now, data about fluctuating concentrations of VIP in corpus cavernosum (CC) blood have been controversial. The present study describes a modified radioimmunoassay method that was developed in our laboratory for the determination of VIP in plasma. Examination of 12 patients suffering from impotentia coeundi (6 men with psychogenic impotence, 2 with induratio penis plastica, and 4 with impotence of vascular origin) showed that the concentrations of VIP in corpus cavernosum blood during pharmacologically induced erection did not increase in organically healthy men or in men with impotentia coeundi of vascular origin. The VIP concentrations in peripheral venous blood and those in CC blood were similar.

Harvard Citation style: KOEHN, F., MISKA, W., SCHILL, W., WEIDNER, W. and WEISKE, W. (1993) CONCENTRATIONS OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE IN CORPUS CAVERNOSUM AND PERIPHERAL VENOUS-BLOOD DURING PROSTAGLANDIN E(1)-INDUCED ERECTION, Archives of andrology, 31(3), pp. 217-222. https://doi.org/10.3109/01485019308988402

APA Citation style: KOEHN, F., MISKA, W., SCHILL, W., WEIDNER, W., & WEISKE, W. (1993). CONCENTRATIONS OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE IN CORPUS CAVERNOSUM AND PERIPHERAL VENOUS-BLOOD DURING PROSTAGLANDIN E(1)-INDUCED ERECTION. Archives of andrology. 31(3), 217-222. https://doi.org/10.3109/01485019308988402