Rho-kinase inhibition suppresses bladder hyperactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-300

  Rajasekaran, Mahadevan ^a   Wilkes, Nathan ^b   Kuntz, Steven ^b   Albo, Michael E ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ROCK; SHR; Urinary bladder; Y 27362

Indexed keywords

RHO KINASE; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; Y 27362;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; URINE VOLUME; URODYNAMICS;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 18144389795     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20122     Document Type: Article

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