The central neural pathways involved in micturition in the neonatal rat as revealed by the injection of pseudorabies virus into the urinary bladder

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-200

  Sugaya, Kimio ^a   Roppolo, James R ^a   Yoshimura, Naoki ^a   Card, John P ^a   De Groat, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

central neural pathway; micturition; neonatal rat; pontine micturition center; postnatal development; pseudorabies virus; transsynaptic tracing; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICTURITION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; INJECTIONS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 0031053621     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13433-4     Document Type: Article

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