Contractile properties of ureters from rats with infravesical urinary outlet obstruction

Urological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 337-342

  Hjortswang, Henrik ^a   Malmqvist, Ulf ^a   Uvelius, Bengt ^a   Arner, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hypertrophy; Rats; Smooth muscle; Ureter; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; URETER;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NOREPINEPHRINE; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; URETER; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; URINATION;

EID: 0031770254     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002400050066     Document Type: Article

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