Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 21-24 , January 2003

Isolation and culture of adult and fetal rabbit bladder smooth muscle cells and their interaction with biopolymers

Presented at the 49th Annual Congress of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Cambridge, England, July 23-26, 2002.

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☆ Address reprint requests to B. Haluk Guvenc, MD, Kocaeli University Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kocaeli, 41900, Turkey.

PII: S0022-3468(02)63011-8

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2003.50003

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 21-24 , January 2003

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