Effect of glycine on recovery of bladder smooth muscle contractility after acute urinary retention in rats

BJU International

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1403-1408

  Hong, Sung K ^a   Son, Hwancheol ^a   Kim, Soo W ^a   Oh, Seung June ^a   Choi, Hwang ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acute urinary retention; Apoptosis; Bladder overdistension; Contractility; Glycine; I R injury

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CASPASE 3; GLYCINE; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER EMPTYING; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION; UPREGULATION; URINE RETENTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE AGENTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 28544448981     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05855.x     Document Type: Article

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