Sympathetic efferent pathways projecting to the bladder neck and proximal urethra in the rat

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 134-142

  Kihara, Kazunori ^a,b   De Groat, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Innervation; Internal urethral sphincter; Lumbar splanchnic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; BLADDER SPHINCTER; EFFERENT NERVE; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0031026443     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1838(96)00117-8     Document Type: Article

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