Short-term timecourse of bilateral pudendal nerve injury on leak-point pressure in female rats

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-114

  Ahn, Helen ^a   Lin, Dan Li ^a,b   Esparza, Nereida ^b   Damaser, Margot S ^a,b,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; Incontinence; Leak point pressure; Nerve injury; Pudendal nerve; Rat; Urethra

Indexed keywords

LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

INCONTINENCE; LEAK-POINT PRESSURE (LPP); PUDENDAL NERVES; URETHRA;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 16244384648     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2003.11.0169     Document Type: Article

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