Striated muscle and nerve fascicle distribution in the female rat urethral sphincter

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-154

  Kim, Ronald J ^a,b   Kerns, James M ^c   Liu, Shirley ^a   Nagel, Ted ^c   Zaszczurynski, Paul ^a,d,e   Lin, Dan Li ^a,d,e   Damaser, Margot S ^a,d,e  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; External urethral sphincter; Female; Histology; Innervation; Morphometry; Nerves; Rat; Rhabdosphincter; Striated muscle; Urethra

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; URETHRA; VAGINA;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING; URETHRA;

RATTUS;

EID: 33947129672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20420     Document Type: Article

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