Afferent bladder nerve activity in the rat: A mechanism for starting and stopping voiding contractions

Urological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 395-405

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

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder nerve activity; Trigger mechanism; Voiding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER FILLING; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFERENT NERVE; MALE; MICTURITION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY NERVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 12344337319     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-004-0416-8     Document Type: Article

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