Amitriptyline eliminates calculi through urinary tract smooth muscle relaxation

Kidney International

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1356-1364

  Achar, Eduardo ^b   Achar, Rosi A N ^b   Paiva, Therezinha B ^b   Campos, Alexandre H ^b   Schor, Nestor ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Obstructive acute renal failure; Relaxation; Urinary tract smooth muscle; Urolithiasis; Voltage dependent potassium channel

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMITRIPTYLINE; BRADYKININ; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER; URINARY TRACT; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 0141674916     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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