Effects of long-term estrogen treatment on micturition behavior and the sensory neurons of the urinary bladder in old female rats

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 462-467

  Toji, Sumiyo ^a   Watanabe, Takeshi ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder capacity; Dorsal root ganglion; Estrogen

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ESTRADIOL; PURINERGIC P2X3 RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE VOLUME;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 57649114774     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000167848     Document Type: Article

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