An in vitro study on human ureteric smooth muscle with the α1-adrenoceptor subtype blocker, tamsulosin

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1743-1745

  Rajpathy, John ^b   Aswathaman, Karthikeyan ^a   Sinha, Maneesh ^c   Subramani, Sathya ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^a   Kekre, Nitin S ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b British Oxygen Company Limited   (India)

^c Manipal Tata Medical College Jamshedpur   (India)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptor and adrenergic blocker; Tamsulosin; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CESIUM CHLORIDE; PRAZOSIN; TAMSULOSIN;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY DONOR; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URETER; URETER PERISTALSIS; URETER STONE; URETERONEOCYSTOSTOMY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; SULFONAMIDES; URETER;

EID: 56649086924     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.08022.x     Document Type: Article

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