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VEGF induces sensory and motor peripheral plasticity, alters bladder function, and promotes visceral sensitivity

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Title
VEGF induces sensory and motor peripheral plasticity, alters bladder function, and promotes visceral sensitivity
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BMC Physiology, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6793-12-15
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Anna P Malykhina, Qi Lei, Chris S Erickson, Miles L Epstein, Marcia R Saban, Carole A Davis, Ricardo Saban

Abstract

This work tests the hypothesis that bladder instillation with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) modulates sensory and motor nerve plasticity, and, consequently, bladder function and visceral sensitivity.In addition to C57BL/6J, ChAT-cre mice were used for visualization of bladder cholinergic nerves. The direct effect of VEGF on the density of sensory nerves expressing the transient receptor potential vanilloid subfamily 1 (TRPV1) and cholinergic nerves (ChAT) was studied one week after one or two intravesical instillations of the growth factor.To study the effects of VEGF on bladder function, mice were intravesically instilled with VEGF and urodynamic evaluation was assessed. VEGF-induced alteration in bladder dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons was performed on retrogradly labeled urinary bladder afferents by patch-clamp recording of voltage gated Na+ currents. Determination of VEGF-induced changes in sensitivity to abdominal mechanostimulation was performed by application of von Frey filaments.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 37 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 7 18%
Unknown 5 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 5%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 6 16%
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