Role of Rho-kinase in contractions of ureters from rabbits with unilateral ureteric obstruction

BJU International

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1166-1171

  Turna, Burak ^a   Cinar, Mehtap G ^a   Canda, Abdullah E ^b   Orhan, Elif C ^a   Tiftik, Nalan R ^c   Nazli, Oktay ^a   Buyukafsar, Kansu ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Manisa State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Rho kinase; Unilateral ureteric obstruction; Ureter; Urolithiasis; Y 27632

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; CARBACHOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RHO KINASE; ROCK 1 PROTEIN; ROCK 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RABBITS; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; URETER; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 35148858461     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07152.x     Document Type: Article

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