CELLULAR SIGNALING IN THE BLADDER

Laurence S. Baskin^1,3, Simon W. Hayward^1,2, Ronald A. Sutherland¹, Michael S. DiSandro¹, Axel A.Thomson² and Gerald R. Cunha^1,2

Department of Urology1, Anatomy2 and Pediatrics3 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, 94143-0738

Received 11/13/97 Accepted 11/25/97

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