Lack of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 channel modulates the development of neurogenic bladder dysfunction induced by cross-sensitization in afferent pathways

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lei, Qi ^a   Pan, Xiao Qing ^a   Villamor, Antonio N ^a   Asfaw, Tirsit S ^b   Chang, Shaohua ^c   Zderic, Steven A ^d   Malykhina, Anna P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder sensory neurons; Chronic pelvic pain; Detrusor contractility; Neurogenic bladder

Indexed keywords

PHORBOL DIBUTYRATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICTURITION DISORDER; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUTANT; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR GENE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL VANILLOID 1 CHANNEL GENE; UPREGULATION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84872136884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17422094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-10-3     Document Type: Article

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