Aging and the underactive detrusor: A failure of activity or activation?

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 408-412

  Smith, Phillip P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Contractility; Detrusor underactivity; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

AGING; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FUNCTION; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EFFERENT NERVE; FORCE; HUMAN; MICTURITION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; BLADDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URODYNAMICS;

AGING; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; URINARY BLADDER; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 77953567590     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20765     Document Type: Review

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