Medical_04.doc

This confirmed previous studies showing that icariin (a compound found inside the horny goat weed) is a PDE5 inhibitor. The 5th compound Sildenafil, however, is 80 times more effective at inhibiting PDE5 than icariin. Dell'Agli and his team extracted icariin from the plants and produced 6 modified versions of it which they also tested on PDE5. ................
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