Transient suppression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in urinary bladder pathways following spinal cord injury

Brain Research

Volumn 1137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-28

  Takahara, Yuki ^a   Maeda, Mitsuyo ^a   Nakatani, Tatsuya ^a   Kiyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder; Micturition; Pelvic ganglion; Regeneration; VAChT

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL MODEL; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BLADDER WALL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOMETRY; FEMALE; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICTURITION; MOTONEURON; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CORDOTOMY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846907877     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.042     Document Type: Article

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