ea0016p172 | Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | ECE2008
Morrison John
, Dhanasekaran Subramanian
, Howarth Christopher
Twelve-month-old GK rats that showed glucose intolerance were compared with age matched Wistar rats. The concentrations of noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (ADR) dopamine (DOP), Neuropeptide Y (NPY), and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) were measured in tissue samples. The objective was to assess whether glucose intolerance was associated with changes in the noradrenergic and peptidergic nerves innervating the tail artery (TA), seminal vesicle (SV) and corpus cavernosum (C...