Smooth muscle and neural mechanisms contributing to the downregulation of neonatal rat spontaneous bladder contractions during postnatal development

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ng, Yuen Keng ^a   De Groat, William C ^b   Wu, Hsi Yang ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Large conductance KCa channel; Purinergic; Small conductance KCa channel

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; IBERIOTOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; DOWN-REGULATION; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURAMIN; TETRODOTOXIN; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 34248199282     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00779.2006     Document Type: Article

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