...Jean M. De Meyer; Walter A. De Sy Injection of a small dose of noradrenaline in one corpus cavernosum caused quick detumescence in 10 children and 7 adults with disturbing peroperative erections. The mode of administration is simple, and complications have not appeared. As this therapy has always...

... the urethra also has a genital function. Sympathetic nerves play a major role in all the functions of the urethra, noradrenaline is an important transmitter and α-adrenoceptors are widely distributed in the many urethral tissues involved. The tools are available, and have been exploited, to identify...

... weeks. In the fetus, autonomic ganglia occur in association with noradrenaline rich paraganglia and surprisingly, with sensory nerve endings resembling pacinian corpuscles. Shortly after birth paraganglia are no longer associated with the autonomic ganglia of the genitourinary system. On the basis...