Bladder outlet obstruction triggers neural plasticity in sensory pathways and contributes to impaired sensitivity in erectile dysfunction

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Malykhina, Anna P ^a   Lei, Qi ^a   Chang, Shaohua ^b   Pan, Xiao Qing ^a   Villamor, Antonio N ^a   Smith, Ariana L ^a   Seftel, Allen D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Hospital Care   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Afferent innervation; Corpus cavernosum; Sensory neurons; Smooth muscle contractility

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER HYPERTROPHY; BLADDER NECK; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RESIDUAL URINE; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPINAL GANGLION;

AFFERENT INNERVATION; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; SENSORY NEURONS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PENIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE P; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 84878642128     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00558.2012     Document Type: Article

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