Afferent and efferent branching axons from the rat lumbo-sacral spinal cord project both to the urinary bladder and the urethra as demonstrated by double retrograde neuronal labeling

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-158

  Russo, A ^a   Conte, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Pharmacology Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axonal branching; Lumbo sacral spinal cord; Retrograde labeling; Vesico urethral innervation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; URETHRA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMIDINES; ANIMALS; AXONS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0030606287     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13204-3     Document Type: Article

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