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Fouad Lemtiri-Chlieh1,2, Dylan S Baker1,3,4, Iman M Al-Naggar1,5

  • 1University of Connecticut Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut.

American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
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Keywords:
HCN ion channeladrenergic relaxationdetrusor smooth musclesingle-cell transcriptomicsurinary bladder

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