The role of sympathetic innervation in the developing rat gubernaculum

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 350-354

  Sasaki, Yasunari ^a,b   Hutson, John M ^a,b,c   Clarke, Melanie C C ^b  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenergic; Guanethidine; Gubernaculum; Isoprenaline; Nifedipine; Rat; Sympathetic; Testicular descent

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; GUANETHIDINE; ISOPRENALINE; NIFEDIPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CREMASTER MUSCLE; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GUANETHIDINE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; NIFEDIPINE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TESTIS;

EID: 33846508554     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.10.037     Document Type: Article

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