CHARACTERIZATION OF CULTURED BLADDER SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS: ASSESSMENT OF IN VITRO CONTRACTILITY
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 162 (5) , 1779-1784
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(05)68237-7
Abstract
Purpose: The contractile properties of in vitro cultured bladder smooth muscle cells (SMC) are unknown. This study characterized the in vitro contractile response of human and rat bladder SMC to se...Keywords
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