Bladder activation by selective stimulation of pudendal nerve afferents in the cat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 218-225

  Yoo, Paul B ^a   Woock, John P ^a   Grill, Warren M ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial sensory nerve; Deep perineal branch; Dorsal nerve of penis; Electrical stimulation; External urethral sphincter; Lower urinary tract physiology; Prostatic urethra; Pudendo pudendal reflex; Spinal cord injury; Spinal bulbo spinal

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FUNCTION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MICTURITION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; REFLEX; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; URINATION; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 44949108049     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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