Neurophysiological modeling of bladder afferent activity in the rat overactive bladder model

The Journal of Physiological Sciences : JPS
Mahipal ChoudharyFrancesco Clavica

Abstract

The overactive bladder (OAB) is a syndrome-based urinary dysfunction characterized by "urgency, with or without urge incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia". Earlier we developed a mathematical model of bladder nerve activity during voiding in anesthetized rats and found that the nerve activity in the relaxation phase of voiding contractions was all afferent. In the present study, we applied this mathematical model to an acetic acid (AA) rat model of bladder overactivity to study the sensitivity of afferent fibers in intact nerves to bladder pressure and volume changes. The afferent activity in the filling phase and the slope, i.e., the sensitivity of the afferent fibers to pressure changes in the post-void relaxation phase, were found to be significantly higher in AA than in saline measurements, while the offset (nerve activity at pressure ~0) and maximum pressure were comparable. We have thus shown, for the first time, that the sensitivity of afferent fibers in the OAB can be studied without cutting nerves or preparation of single fibers. We conclude that bladder overactivity induced by AA in rats is neurogenic in origin and is caused by increased sensitivity of afferent sensors in the bladder wall.

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Citations

Feb 3, 2016·SpringerPlus·Mahipal ChoudharyEls van Asselt
Dec 23, 2015·International Journal of Urology : Official Journal of the Japanese Urological Association·Mahipal ChoudharyEls van Asselt
Jul 2, 2016·Laboratory Animals·Els van AsseltRon van Mastrigt
Jul 27, 2017·Neurourology and Urodynamics·Thomas NiederhauserFrancesco Clavica

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