Research Article

Inhibition of Nitric Oxide Synthase Prevents Muscarinic and Purinergic Functional Changes and Development of Cyclophosphamide-Induced Cystitis in the Rat

Table 1

Methacholine concentration-response curve characteristics. Nonlinear analyses according to bell-shaped response-curves.

Treatment (first part of biphasic curve) Curve differences ( , )

Saline-saline0.74−4.800.714.38, 0.001
Saline-CYP0.89−5.430.75
4-DAMP-saline0.75−4.130.857.26, <0.0001
4-DAMP-CYP0.89−5.250.64
L-NAME-saline0.91−5.000.792.55, 0.035
L-NAME-CYP0.97−5.410.83