The Effect of Low-Dose Estrogen Therapy on Ovariectomized Female Rabbit Bladder

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1209-1213

  Juan, Yung Shun ^a,b   Mannikarottu, Anita ^c,d   Kogan, Barry A ^c   Leggett, Robert E ^e   Whitbeck, Catherine ^e   Chichester, Paul ^d   Lin, Wei Yu ^c,d   Johnson, Arnold ^d,e   Levin, Robert M ^c,d,e  

^a KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; ESTRADIOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OVARIECTOMY; RABBITS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 44649088369     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.056     Document Type: Article

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