The effect of nifedipine on spontaneous, drug-induced and reflexly-activated contractions of the rat urinary bladder: Evidence for the participation of an intracellular calcium store to micturition contraction

General Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 73-81

  Maggi, Carlo Alberto ^a   Manzini, Stefano ^b   Parlani, Massimo ^c   Conte, Bruno ^c   Giuliani, Sandro ^a   Meli, Alberto ^a  

^a Research Laboratories   (Italy)

^b Ist Farmacobiologico Malesci SpA   (Italy)

^c Pharmacology Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CALCIUM; CARBACHOL; EDETIC ACID; INDOMETACIN; ISOPRENALINE; NIFEDIPINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLADDER CONTRACTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMAL; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; BLADDER; CALCIUM; CARBACHOL; EDETIC ACID; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VITRO; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NIFEDIPINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REFLEX; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URINATION;

EID: 0023849396     PISSN: 03063623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-3623(88)90008-0     Document Type: Article

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