Comparative response of rabbit bladder smooth muscle and mucosa to anoxia

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-84

  Levin, Robert M ^a,b   Hypolite, Joseph A ^a   Haugaard, Niels ^a   Wein, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anoxia; bladder; ischemia; metabolism; mucosa; smooth muscle; urothelium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER MUCOSA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; UROTHELIUM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; MALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHOSPHOCREATINE; RABBITS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0029937804     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6777(1996)15:1<79::AID-NAU8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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