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Nature Medicine  3, 502 - 504 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-502

A role for nitric oxide synthase in urinary "urge syndrome"

Karl-Erik Andersson

Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Lund University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden

Bladder abnormalities in mice deficient in neuronal nitric oxide synthase may model idiopathic voiding disorders in humans (pages 571−574).

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