ReviewExperimental neurology2012
Plasticity in reflex pathways to the lower urinary tract following spinal cord injury.
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- Molecular Mechanism Operating in Animal Models of Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity: A Systematic Review Focusing on Bladder Dysfunction of Neurogenic Origin.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Early interventions to prevent lower urinary tract dysfunction after spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Spinal cord · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical observation of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in treatment for sequelae of thoracolumbar spinal cord injury.Journal of translational medicine · 2014Trial
- Animal models of spinal cord injury in neuro-urological research.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Redefining bladder sympathetic Innervation with three-dimensional image reconstruction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Urothelial Piezo1 channel contributes to BOO-induced inflammation, EMT, and bladder fibrosis via activation of NLRP3 inflammasome.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Development of urinary impairment after spinal cord injury courses with altered urethral serotonin signalling in the female mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A surgical and functional approach to the pelvic gross neuroanatomy of the female Yucatan minipig.Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft · 2025Article
- Effects of low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave on bladder and urethral dysfunction in spinal cord injured rats.International urology and nephrology · 2024Article
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- Hypoxic-preconditioned mesenchymal stem cell-derived small extracellular vesicles inhibit neuronal death after spinal cord injury by regulating the SIRT1/Nrf2/HO-1 pathway.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Sprouting of afferent and efferent inputs to pelvic organs after spinal cord injury.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2023Article
- Predictive values of spinal cord diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to characterize outcomes after contusion injury.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2023Article
- Therapeutic effects of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibition on hyperexcitability of capsaicin sensitive bladder afferent neurons in mice with spinal cord injury.Life sciences · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in Immune Cell Infiltration and Hematuria in SCI-Induced Hemorrhagic Cystitis.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2023Article
- Assessing Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury: Animal Models in Preclinical Neuro-Urology Research.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Molecular Mechanisms of Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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- Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction in Spinal Dysraphism: Morphological and Molecular Evidence in Children.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
The lower urinary tract has two main functions, storage and periodic expulsion of urine, that are regulated by a complex neural control system in the brain and lumbosacral spinal cord. This neural system coordinates the activity of two functional units in the lower urinary tract: (1) a reservoir (the urinary bladder) and (2) an outlet (consisting of bladder neck, urethra and striated muscles of the external urethra sphincter). During urine storage the outlet is closed and the bladder is quiescent to maintain a low intravesical pressure. During micturition the outlet relaxes and the bladder contracts to promote efficient release of urine. This reciprocal relationship between bladder and outlet is generated by reflex circuits some of which are under voluntary control. Experimental studies in animals indicate that the micturition reflex is mediated by a spinobulbospinal pathway passing through a coordination center (the pontine micturition center) located in the rostral brainstem. This reflex pathway is in turn modulated by higher centers in the cerebral cortex that are involved in the voluntary control of micturition. Spinal cord injury at cervical or thoracic levels disrupts voluntary control of voiding as well as the normal reflex pathways that coordinate bladder and sphincter function. Following spinal cord injury the bladder is initially areflexic but then becomes hyperreflexic due to the emergence of a spinal micturition reflex pathway. However the bladder does not empty efficiently because coordination between the bladder and urethral outlet is lost. Studies in animals indicate that dysfunction of the lower urinary tract after spinal cord injury is dependent in part on plasticity of bladder afferent pathways as well as reorganization of synaptic connections in the spinal cord. Reflex plasticity is associated with changes in the properties of ion channels and electrical excitability of afferent neurons and appears to be mediated in part by neurotrophic factors released in the spinal cord and/or the peripheral target organs.
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