Methods of testing urethral resistance in the female rat

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 539 B, Issue , 2004, Pages 831-839

  Damaser, Margot S ^a   Kim, Fernando J ^a   Minetti, Gina M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SNEEZING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; VALSALVA MANEUVER; ANIMAL; COUGHING; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; URETHRA;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; COUGH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; RATS; SNEEZING; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 2942741276     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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