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Fig. 5

From: Improvement of erectile dysfunction using endothelial progenitor cells from fetal cerebral vasculature in the cavernous nerve injury of rats

Fig. 5

Erectile response to nerve stimulation in cavernous nerve-injured model of rats. At 2, 4, 12 weeks, the group with cavernous nerve injury showed significantly lower erectile function than the group without cavernous nerve injury (P < 0.05). The group transplanted with HEN6 showed higher erectile function than the group without HEN6 (*P < 0.05). For electric stimulation, 1 and 5 V were used at 12-Hz frequency with a 1-ms square-wave interval for 60 s. The number of rats used in the study was 6 for each study interval and group. ICP = intracavernous pressure, HEN6 = human telomerase reverse transcriptase immortalized cerebral endothelial progenitor cells, CNI = cavernous nerve injury without stem cells transplantation, hTERT-CEPC = Human telomerase reverse transcriptase-circulating endothelial progenitor cell

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Basic and Clinical Andrology

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