Recovery of external anal sphincter contractile function after prolonged vaginal distention or sphincter transection in an animal model

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1426-1434

  Wai, Clifford Y ^a   Rahn, David D ^b   White, Amanda B ^b   Word, R Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANUS SPHINCTER; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL DISTENTION; ANAL CANAL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; VAGINA;

ATROPINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 47749132670     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318173f0b8     Document Type: Article

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