The Journal of Urology
Volume 182, Issue 6, Supplement , Pages S18-S26 , December 2009

Diabetic Bladder Dysfunction: Current Translational Knowledge

  • Firouz Daneshgari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (telephone: 216-844-5504)
    • Current address: Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
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  • Guiming Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Current address: Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
    • ,
  • Lori Birder

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Ann T. Hanna-Mitchell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Samuel Chacko

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Pathology and Urology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health Grants U01DK076162 (FD) and P50DK52620 (SC), and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Grant 19-2006-1061 (FD, LB).

PII: S0022-5347(09)02092-8

doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.08.070

The Journal of Urology
Volume 182, Issue 6, Supplement , Pages S18-S26 , December 2009

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