COMPARATIVE PRESSURE-LENGTH-DIAMETER RELATIONSHIPS OF NEONATAL AND ADULT RABBIT URETERS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 14  (4) , 297-300
Abstract
Pressure-length-diameter relationships of neonatal and adult rabbit ureters were studied in vitro. The increase in diameter, in response to an intraluminal pressure load of 10, 20 and 40 g/cm2, was faster and greater in the neonate than in the adult. Incubation in norepinephrine decreased the diametral deformation of neonatal ureters but had little effect on deformation in the adult ureter. The in vitro neonatal rabbit ureter was more compliant and more sensitive to norepinephrine than the adult ureter.

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