Nerve control of bladder function

Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 589-633

  Gabella, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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