Comparison of the effects of oestrogen deficiency and old age on primary bladder afferent activity and voiding behaviour in the ageing female rat

BJU International

Volumn 108, Issue 2 B, 2011, Pages

  Aizawa, Naoki ^a   Iijima, Kazuyoshi ^a   Rosenbaum, Jan S ^b,c   Downs, Thomas R ^b   Igawa, Yasuhiko ^d   Andersson, Karl Erik ^e   Wyndaele, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^c CincyTechUSA   (United States)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

afferent pathway; oestrogens; ovariectomy; Sprague Dawley rats; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA NERVE FIBER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MICTURITION; NERVE FIBER C; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SENSORY NERVE; URINARY FREQUENCY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 79960094984     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09689.x     Document Type: Article

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