Division of the male rat rhabdosphincter into structurally and functionally differentiated parts

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 536-542

  Lehtoranta, Mari ^a   Streng, Tomi ^a   Yatkin, Emrah ^a   Paranko, Jorma ^a   Kolts, Ivo ^b   Talo, Antti ^a   Santti, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cystometry; Electromyography; Histology; Rat; Rhabdosphincter; Structure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAST MUSCLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; RHABDOSPHINCTER; SEMINAL VESICLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URINE FLOW RATE; URODYNAMICS; VAS DEFERENS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE III; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PELVIC FLOOR; PENIS; PROSTATE; RATS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646495996     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20318     Document Type: Article

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