Immunoneutralization of nerve growth factor in the lumbosacral spinal cord reduces bladder hyperreflexia in spinal cord injured rats

Journal of Urology

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2269-2274

  Seki, Satoshi ^a   Sasaki, Katsumi ^a   Fraser, Matthew O ^a   Igawa, Yasuhiko ^a   Nishizawa, Osamu ^a   Chancellor, Michael B ^a   De Groat, William C ^a   Yoshimura, Naoki ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bladder; Ganglia, spinal; Nerve growth factor; Rats, Sprague Dawley; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICTURITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINAL GANGLION; TIME;

EID: 0036837478     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)64369-8     Document Type: Article

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