In vivo properties of the urinary bladder wall and their modulation by estradiol and raloxifene in a rat model

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 514-519

  Schultens, A ^a   Becker, T ^a   Balmer, D ^a   Seidlova Wuttke D ^a   Wuttke, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intravesical pressureestradiol; Raloxifene; Transurethral catheter; Urinary bladder wall

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ESTRADIOL; RALOXIFENE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER COMPLIANCE; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; BLADDER FILLING; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER MUSCLE; BLADDER PRESSURE; BLADDER WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DRUG EFFECT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MODULATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; THICKNESS; URINE CATHETER; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; UROGENITAL AGING;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; COMPLIANCE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PRESSURE; RALOXIFENE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URINARY BLADDER; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 7644237547     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-821314     Document Type: Article

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