Neuropeptides in lower urinary tract function

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2011, Pages 395-423

  Arms, Lauren ^a   Vizzard, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Nerve growth factor; Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide; Substance P; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; NEUROKININ A; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SUBSTANCE P; TACHYKININ; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; ENDOTHELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BLADDER INNERVATION; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CYSTALGIA; CYSTITIS; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MICTURITION REFLEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NOCTURIA; NONHUMAN; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROTHELIUM; ANIMAL; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MICTURITION; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; ENDOTHELINS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; REFLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANCE P; TACHYKININS; URINARY TRACT; URINATION; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 79952221342     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16499-6_19     Document Type: Article

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