… Afferent pathways from the bladder to the spinal cord in normal rats and in rats with partial
urethral obstruction were identified by axonal tracing techniques using WGA-HRP. Under …

… urine volumes and bladder overdistension (2,3,5,6,27). It has been suggested that this
bladder… of SC1 on bladder function and bladder-sphincter coordination in the rat. A preliminary …

… Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) produces lower urinary … Our aim was to assess LUT
functional deficit in a clinically … of rat urinary bladder during acute phase of spinal cord injury…

… injuries at different spinal levels. We report here that histologically similar lesions at T4 or T9
produce impairments in bladder function … injuries at T4 or T9 disrupt bladder function of rats, …

… relevant model of spinal cord contusion in the rat produces injury severity-dependent … of
urinary bladder and EUS function. Twenty percent white matter sparing at the injury epicenter …

… Animal studies have been critical in improving our understanding of lower urinary … spinal
cord lesions in rats: complete transection SCI (tSCI) and contusion SCI (cSCI) by blunt injury …

… or complete transection injury, we found that rats after both transection and contusion spinal
cord injury showed evidence of reflexive bladder contractions in week 2 after injury, but only …

… associated with spinal cord injury (SCI… bladder and renal functions are generally not
evaluated. In this study, we tested whether simvastatin improves bladder and renal functions in a rat …

… rats. Our findings indicate that contusive spinal cord injury resulted in high residual bladder
… -injury but remained significantly higher than control bladder volumes up to 46 days post-…

… half of SCI rats exhibited uninhibited bladder contractions … spinal cord transected rat has
been used as a model for examining the changes in voiding mechanisms after spinal cord injury …