Ginsenoside Rg3 improves erectile function in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

Introduction: Ginsenoside Rg3 is one of the active ingredients isolated from Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer.

[Novel no-flip Shang Ring circumcision for adult males: a clinical application study of 528 cases].

Objective: To evaluate the safety and clinical outcomes of the novel simplified no-flip surgical approach to Shang Ring male circumcision in adults.

Methods: A total of 528 adult males, aged 18 - 58 (mean 35) years, 63 with phimosis and 465 with redundant prepuce, underwent no-flip Shang Ring circumcision with or without removal of the outer ring. The operation time and intraoperative blood loss were recorded and observations were made on such complications as postoperative bleeding, infection, edema, and wound dehiscence.

[Standardized male circumcision with Shang Ring reduces postoperative complications: a report of 351 cases].

Objective: To investigate the effect of standardized male circumcision with Shang Ring in reducing postoperative complications.

Methods: We performed standardized male circumcision with Shang Ring for 351 males aged 4-58 (mean 31) years, 46 with phimosis and 305 with redundant prepuce, and observed the complications, including postoperative bleeding, infection, edema, and wound dehiscence.

Results: The main complications included infection (5 cases, 1.

[Relationship of nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthase with varicocele infertility].

Objective: To investigate the relationship of nitric oxide (NO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) with varicocele (VC) infertility.

Methods: Fifty-three infertile men, 21 with varicocele and 32 with subvaricocele, were enrolled as Group 1, 29 infertile patients with oligoasthenozoospermia but without varicocele as Group 2 and 28 normal fertile controls as Group 3. The NO content and NOS activity in the seminal plasma and peripheral blood were measured by nitric acid reductase method, and the semen parameters of VC determined by computer-assisted semen analysis (CASA).

Clinical application of a new device for minimally invasive circumcision.

Aim: To study the clinical effects of a disposable circumcision device in treatment of male patients of different ages with either phimosis or excess foreskin.

Methods: One thousand two hundred patients between the age of 5 and 95 years underwent circumcision using this procedure in the 2-year period between October 2005 and September 2007. Of these cases, 904 had excess foreskin and 296 were cases of phimosis.