The role of bladder-to-urethral reflexes in urinary continence mechanisms in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 287, Issue 3 56-3, 2004, Pages

  Kamo, Izumi ^a,b   Canno, Tracy W ^a   Conway, Deirdre A ^a   Torimoto, Kazumasa ^a   Chancellor, Michael B ^a   De Groat, William C ^a   Yoshimura, Naoki ^a  

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

^b TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leak point pressure; Stress urinary incontinence; Urethral resistance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MICTURITION REFLEX; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIC NERVE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATIC CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 4143122056     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00038.2004     Document Type: Article

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