The immediate effect of castration on female rabbit bladder blood flow and tissue oxygenation

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-268

  Badger, William J ^a   Whitbeck, Catherine ^b,c   Kogan, Barry ^a   Chichester, Paul ^b,c   Levin, Robert M ^a,b,c  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Hypoxia; Ovariectomized rabbit; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; OXYGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLOOD FLOW; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RABBIT; TISSUE OXYGENATION; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; OXYGEN; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33645662738     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091631     Document Type: Article

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