Altered bladder function in transgenic mice expressing rat elastin

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-68

  Lemack, Gary E ^a   Szabo, Zoltan ^b   Urban, Zsolt ^b   Boyd, Charles D ^b   Csiszar, Katalin ^b   Vaughan Jr , E Darracott ^a   Felsen, Diane ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Compliance; Elastin; Transgene; Tropoelastin

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELASTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TROPOELASTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; ELASTIC FIBER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; COMPLIANCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPOELASTIN; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032907161     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6777(1999)18:1<55::AID-NAU8>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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