Rectal distention inhibits the spinal micturition reflex via glycinergic or GABAergic mechanisms in rats with spinal cord injury

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-165

  Miyazato, Minoru ^a   Sugaya, Kimio ^a   Nishijima, Saori ^a   Morozumi, Makoto ^a   Ohyama, Choko ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bicuculline; Inhibitory rectovesical reflex; Lumbosacral cord; Micturition reflex; Strychnine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; STRYCHNINE;

ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER FUNCTION; COLON DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICTURITION REFLEX; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTAL DISTENSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GLYCINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECTUM; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRYCHNINE; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 17244382336     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083288     Document Type: Article

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