ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2020
Choosing to urinate. Circuits and mechanisms underlying voluntary urination.
Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A Non-spinal Neural Circuit for Transmitting Information of Bladder Conditions.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Male and female mice scent mark during social communication regardless of sexual motivation or partner identity.Cell reports · 2026Article
- A novel behavioral paradigm for odor-induced voluntary urination in mice.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Enkephalinergic Neurons in Barrington's Nucleus Gate Sex-Specific Control of Micturition.Research square · 2025Article
- SST neurons in the periaqueductal gray regulate urination and bladder function.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Rapid and accurate testing for urinary tract infection: new clothes for the emperor.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Regularity, variability, and individuality: urine marking patterns of male mice toward stimuli representing varying degrees of kinship.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Neural circuit control of innate behaviors.Science China. Life sciences · 2022Review
- Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray Neurons Are Active During Urination.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Rheology of the Carotid Sinus: A Path Toward Bioinspired Intervention.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The decision to urinate is a social behavior that is calculated multiple times a day. Many animals perform urine scent-marking which broadcasts their pheromones to regulate the behavior of others and humans are trained at an early age to urinate only at a socially acceptable time and place. The inability to control when and where to void, that is incontinence, causes extreme social discomfort yet targeted therapeutics are lacking because little is known about the underlying circuits and mechanisms. The use of animal models, neurocircuit analysis, and functional manipulation is beginning to reveal basic logic of the circuit that modulates the decision of when and where to void.
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