Sex-related differences in activity of lower urinary tract in response to intravesical acid irritation in decerebrate unanesthetized mice

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Yoshiyama, Mitsuharu ^a,b   Kobayashi, Hideki ^a   Araki, Isao ^a   Du, Shuqi ^a   Zakoji, Hidenori ^a   Takeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Yamanashi Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Afferent; Bladder tonus; Detrusor contractility; Efferent; Urethral resistance

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; IRRITANT AGENT;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DECEREBRATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICTURITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; URETHRA; ANIMAL; BLADDER; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTITIS; INNERVATION; INTRAVESICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACETIC ACID; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ANIMALS; CYSTITIS; DECEREBRATE STATE; FEMALE; IRRITANTS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 54049117571     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90406.2008     Document Type: Article

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