Autonomous activity in the isolated guinea pig bladder

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-30

  Drake, M J ^a   Harvey, I J ^a   Gillespie, J I ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARECAIDINE; ATROPINE; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCARINIC AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER PRESSURE; BLADDER WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STIMULATION;

EID: 0037247226     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8802473     Document Type: Review

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