Electrical stimulation of sacral dermatomes can suppress aberrant urethral reflexes in felines with chronic spinal cord injury

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-97

  McCoin, Jaime L ^a,b   Bhadra, Narendra ^a,b   Gustafson, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

afferent stimulation; detrusor sphincter dyssynergia; functional electrical stimulation; lower urinary tract; neuroprosthesis; spinal cord injury; voiding dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER PRESSURE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FASCICULATION; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MICTURITION REFLEX; NONHUMAN; SACRAL DERMATOME; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; URETHRA PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 84871384006     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.22276     Document Type: Article

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