Postpartum stress urinary incontinence: Lessons from animal models

Expert Review of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 567-580

  Gill, Bradley C ^a   Moore, Courtenay ^b   Damaser, Margot S ^b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

birth injury; continence; muscle injury; nerve injury; neuromuscular; regeneration; repair

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL MODEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIMATE; PUDENDAL NERVE; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA DISEASE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 77956498773     PISSN: 17474108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eog.10.48     Document Type: Review

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