The challenges in artificial muscle research to treat incontinence

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 139, Issue 41-42, 2009, Pages 591-595

  Müller, Bert ^a,b   Deyhle, Hans ^a,b   Mushkolaj, Shpend ^a   Wieland, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NanoPowers SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial muscle; Electrically activated polymer; Nanotechnology; Shape memory alloy; Urinary sphincter

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ELECTRICALLY ACTIVATED POLYMER; NANOMATERIAL; NICKEL; POLYMER; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY; SILICONE; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; ATROPHY; BLADDER FILLING; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; COUGHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EROSION; IMPLANT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 70350324275     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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