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Innervation of the child urinary bladder.

Abstract
Muscle strips from the fundus, trigonum and distal ureters obtained from children at operations for vesico-ureteric reflux were studied using histochemical and immunohistochemical methods, and electrical nerve stimulation in an organ bath. A rich supply of cholinergic nerves was found and despite a partial atropine resistance the neurophysiological experiments indicated that the transmitter causing contraction of the detrusor muscle is acetylcholine. Imipramine, which is used in the treatment of enuresis, had no anticholinergic effect on the bladder in the doses used clinically. The adrenergic innervation was very sparse except around the ureter orifices. No contractile alpha-adrenoceptors could be detected but beta receptor mediated relaxation was found, which was neither of the beta 1 nor beta 2 type. A third type of beta receptor is postulated. Peptidergic nerves containing vasoactive intestinal peptide, VIP, were demonstrated in a few nerve terminals running along bundles of smooth muscle. No nerves containing enkephaline, somatostatine or substance P were found. VIP affected the detrusor muscle indicating a possible role as a modulator of transmitter action, while substance P had no effect. The anticholinergic and calcium antagonistic drug terodiline inhibited all muscle activity, whether it was induced by nerve stimulation, cholinergic drugs or a potassium rich solution, making it suitable for treatment of diurnal enuresis.
AuthorsM Elmér, P Alm, C M Kullendorff
JournalScandinavian journal of urology and nephrology (Scand J Urol Nephrol) Vol. 20 Issue 4 Pg. 267-73 ( 1986) ISSN: 0036-5599 [Print] England
PMID3027885 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Butylamines
  • Parasympathomimetics
  • Receptors, Adrenergic, beta
  • Sympathomimetics
  • Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide
  • terodiline
Topics
  • Adrenergic Fibers (drug effects, physiology)
  • Butylamines (therapeutic use)
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cholinergic Fibers (drug effects, physiology)
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Enuresis (drug therapy)
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Parasympathomimetics (pharmacology)
  • Receptors, Adrenergic, beta (classification)
  • Sympathomimetics (pharmacology)
  • Ureter (innervation)
  • Urinary Bladder (innervation)
  • Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (pharmacology)
  • Vesico-Ureteral Reflux (surgery)

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