The role of a leaky epithelium and potassium in the generation of bladder symptoms in interstitial cystitis/overactive bladder, urethral syndrome, prostatitis and gynaecological chronic pelvic pain

BJU International

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 370-375

  Parsons, C Lowell ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

interstitial cystitis; potassium; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; BLADDER MUCOSA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LOWER URINARY DYSFUNCTION EPITHELIUM; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; NONHUMAN; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERMEABILITY; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; URETHRA; VULVODYNIA;

AGED; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC PAIN; POTASSIUM; PROSTATITIS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE;

EID: 79251563470     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09843.x     Document Type: Article

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