Smooth muscle fatigue due to repeated urinary bladder neurostimulation: An in vivo study

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-53

  Bross, Stephan ^a,b   Schumacher, Stefan ^a   Scheepe, Jeroen R ^a   Seif, Christoph ^a   Jünemann, Klaus P ^a   Alken, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bladder (physiology); Contraction; Electric stimulation; Fatigue; Smooth muscle (physiology)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DOG; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DOGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACRUM; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0032959150     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6777(1999)18:1<41::AID-NAU7>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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