Artificial autonomic reflexes: Using functional electrical stimulation to mimic bladder reflexes after injury or disease

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 3-15

  Middleton, James W ^a,b   Keast, Janet R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continence; Functional electrical stimulation; Micturition; Neuromodulation; Plasticity; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER INNERVATION; BLADDER SPHINCTER; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICTURITION; MICTURITION REFLEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

EID: 3543082797     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2004.04.008     Document Type: Review

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