Diabetes might adversely affect expression and function of interstitial cells in the urinary bladder and urethra in humans: A new mechanism in the development of diabetic lower urinary dysfunction?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 632-634

  Canda, Abdullah Erdem ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BLADDER; BLADDER SPHINCTER; DETERIORATION; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MORBIDITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROGNOSIS; SENSOR; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGNOSIS; RABBITS; RISK; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 79954424086     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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