Deficits in bladder function following spinal cord injury vary depending on the level of the injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 128-135

  David, Brian T ^a   Steward, Oswald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Contusion; Crush; Fluorogold; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CRUSH TRAUMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICTURITION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; URINE RETENTION; URINE VOLUME; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE TRACT; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PONS; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CRUSH; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; URINATION;

EID: 77957810911     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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