Threshold for efferent bladder nerve firing in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 6 45-6, 1999, Pages

  Van Asselt, Els ^a   Le Feber, Joost ^a   Van Mastrigt, Ron ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Micturition threshold

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER INNERVATION; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; MALE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; URETHRA;

EID: 0033063972     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.6.r1819     Document Type: Article

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