Plasticity of urinary bladder reflexes evoked by stimulation of pudendal afferent nerves after chronic spinal cord injury in cats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-117

  Tai, Changfeng ^a   Chen, Mang ^a   Shen, Bing ^a   Wang, Jicheng ^a   Liu, Hailong ^a   Roppolo, James R ^a   de Groat, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Electrical stimulation; Plasticity; Spinal cord injury; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER FILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MICTURITION REFLEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TACTILE STIMULATION; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 79851509723     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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