Urethral flow-responsive afferents in the cat sacral dorsal root ganglia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 516, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-38

  Snellings, Andre' E ^a   Yoo, Paul B ^a   Grill, Warren M ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Lower urinary tract; Neural coding; Pudendal nerve; Single unit recording; Urethra

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE;

ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; URETHRA FUNCTION; URETHRAL FLOW;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; URETHRA; URINATION;

EID: 84860259001     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.045     Document Type: Article

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