Role of nitric oxide/cyclic GMP pathway in regulating spontaneous excitations in detrusor smooth muscle of the guinea-pie bladder

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 446-453

  Yanai, Yoshimasa ^a   Hashitani, Hikaru ^a   Hayase, Masa ^a   Sasaki, Shoichi ^a   Suzuki, Hikaru ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic GMP; Detrusor smooth muscle; Interstitial cell; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

1H 1,2,4 OXADIAZOLO[4,3 A]QUINOXALIN 1 ONE; 8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE INHIBITOR; LINSIDOMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SILDENAFIL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC GMP; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INDOLES; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOLSIDOMINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFONES; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 47249141307     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20517     Document Type: Article

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