Sympathetic efferent pathways projecting to the prostate in the dog

Prostate

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-232

  Yonese, Junji ^a,b   Kihara, Kazunori ^a   Sato, Kenji ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a   Kamata, Shigeyoshi ^a   Oshima, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross innervation; Lumbar splanchnic nerve; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; DOGS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROSTATE; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0034255646     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0045(20000801)44:3<225::AID-PROS7>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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