Functional Analysis of Active Urethral Closure Mechanisms Under Sneeze Induced Stress Condition in a Rat Model of Birth Trauma

Journal of Urology

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2711-2715

  Kamo, Izumi ^a,c   Kaiho, Yasuhiro ^a   Canon, Tracy W ^a   Chancellor, Michael B ^a   de Groat, William C ^b   Prantil, Rachelle L ^b   Vorp, David A ^b   Yoshimura, Naoki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

Author keywords

bladder; parturition; rats; Sprague Dawley; stress; urethra; urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BIRTH INJURY; BLADDER PRESSURE; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SNEEZING; STRESS; URETHRA INJURY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARTURITION; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SNEEZING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 33750515846     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.07.139     Document Type: Article

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