A microchannel neuroprosthesis for bladder control after spinal cord injury in rat

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 210, 2013, Pages

  Chew, Daniel J ^a   Zhu, Lan ^b   Delivopoulos, Evangelos ^c   Minev, Ivan R ^d   Musick, Katherine M ^d   Mosse, Charles A ^e   Craggs, Michael ^e   Donaldson, Nicholas ^e   Lacour, Stéphanie P ^d   McMahon, Stephen B ^b   Fawcett, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FUNCTION; DEPOLARIZATION; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; MICROCHANNEL NEUROPROSTHESIS; MICTURITION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VENTRAL ROOT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICROELECTRODES; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL PROSTHESES; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 84888595181     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007186     Document Type: Article

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