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Electrical conductance is measured in pieces of ureteral tissue in two mutually perpendicular directions by means of a four-electrode technique. No anisotropy in conductance is found. It is concluded that there is no predominant fiber orientation. Passive tissue is a capacitance which, combined with the conductance, yields a value of a time constant which is too short to be a limiting factor in the propagation of peristaltic wave.
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van Duyl, W.A. (1985). Search for Anisotropy in Specific Electrical Conductance of Ureteral Tissue as a Measure of Muscle-Fiber Structure. In: Lutzeyer, W., Hannappel, J. (eds) Urodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70436-9_7
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