Elastolytic Activity in Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-126

  Chen, Bertha ^a   Wen, Yan ^a   Polan, Mary Lake ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha 1 antitrypsin; Cathepsin K; Cysteine protease; Elastase; Elastin; Elastolysis; Human neutrophil elastase; Pelvic floor dysfunction; Pelvic organ prolapse; Serine protease; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; CATHEPSIN K; ELASTASE; ELASTIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME MODIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; VAGINA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; CATHEPSINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 1542333614     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20012     Document Type: Article

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