Alterations in eliminative and sexual reflexes after spinal cord injury: Defecatory function and development of spasticity in pelvic floor musculature

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue , 2006, Pages 359-372

  Nout, Yvette S ^a   Leedy, Gail M ^b   Beattie, Michael S ^a   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANUS SPHINCTER; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC HYPERREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFECATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICTURITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PELVIS FLOOR; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 25844502550     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(05)52024-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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