Development of a device to standardize leak point pressure experiments in rats

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 553-558

  Shoffstall, Andrew J ^a   Zaszczurynski, Paul J ^a,b   Butler, Robert S ^a   Damaser, Margot S ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Force; Rate; Reaction time; Rodent; Urethra; Urodynamics; Variability

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL LEAK POINT PRESSURE MEASUREMENT DEVICE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER PRESSURE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSOR; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; MATERIALS TESTING; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 50849113094     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20591     Document Type: Article

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