In Erectile Dysfunction, ROCK-II is an important target, which
when inhibited, helps in management of ED. Herbal extracts
showing ROCK-II inhibition in assay support their use as aphrodisiacs
in traditional literature and these extracts might be helpful
in the management of ED. It would be interesting to
evaluate the inhibition potential of these extracts in other enzyme
targets which are involved in management of ED, like PDE-5
(Rendell et al., 1999), soluble epoxide hydrolase (Yousif and
Benter, 2007) and arginase (Kim et al., 2001), and also to identify
the specific compounds present in these extracts which are
responsible for the inhibition through bio-activity guided
fractionation.