Smooth muscle electromyography from rat urethra

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1497-1501

  Yarnitsky, David ^a   Dashkovsky, Arkady ^a   Rogovsky, Zeev ^a   Vardi, Yoram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cavernosum; Electromyography; Rat; Smooth muscle; Spongiusum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; AORTA; CONSTRICTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; URETHRA;

EID: 0030731517     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199712)20:12<1497::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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