Pacemaker activity in the upper urinary tract

Journal of Smooth Muscle Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 103-115

  Weiss, Robert M ^a   Tamarkin, Frank J ^a   Wheeler, Marcia A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pacemaker; Renal pelvis; Upper urinary tract; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CAPSAICIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TACHYKININ; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; URETER PERISTALSIS; URINARY TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERISTALSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 33750989092     PISSN: 09168737     EISSN: 09168737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1540/jsmr.42.103     Document Type: Review

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