Exercise Training Improves the Defective Centrally Mediated Erectile Responses in Rats with Type I Diabetes

These results suggest that ExT may have beneficial effects on the erectile dysfunction in diabetes through improvement of NO bioavailability within the PVN. Thus, ExT may be used as therapeutic modality to up‐regulate nNOS within the PVN and improve the central component of the erectile dysfunction in diabetes mellitus. Zheng H, Mayhan WG, and Patel KP. Exercise training improves the defective centrally mediated erectile responses in rats with type I diabetes. J Sex Med 2011;8:3086-3097.