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Ureteral contractions occur at intervals which are integral multiples of the period of pacemaker potentials recorded in vitro from the renal pelvis with a sucrose gap, suggesting that a gating mechanism in the pyeloureter regulates the rate at which the pacemaker initiates contractions.
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Acknowledgments. This work was supported by grants from the Australian Research Grants Committee and the National Health and Medical Research Council. V.Z. was supported by a University of Melbourne Research Scholarship. We wish to thank Prof.M. E. Holman for constructive criticism of the manuscript.
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Zawalinski, V.C., Constantinou, C.E. & Burnstock, G. Ureteral pacemaker potentials recorded with the sucrose gap technique. Experientia 31, 931–933 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02358859
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