Long‐term tadalafil administration can prevent functional and structural changes of the urinary bladder in male rats with partial bladder outlet obstruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1330-1337
Author(s):  
Nobuo Shinkai ◽  
Koji Ichihara ◽  
Ko Kobayashi ◽  
Hidetoshi Tabata ◽  
Kohei Hashimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Bladder ◽  
Bladder Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Partial Bladder Outlet Obstruction

Long term partial bladder outlet obstruction induced contractile dysfunction in male rabbits: A role for Rho-kinase

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1043-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Guven ◽  
Bulent Onal ◽  
Carmin Kalorin ◽  
Catherine Whitbeck ◽  
Paul Chichester ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Rho Kinase ◽  
Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Contractile Dysfunction ◽  
Partial Bladder Outlet Obstruction

scholarly journals A corticotropin-releasing factor receptor antagonist improves urodynamic dysfunction produced by social stress or partial bladder outlet obstruction in male rats

2013 ◽  
Vol 304 (11) ◽  
pp. R940-R950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Wood ◽  
Kile McFadden ◽  
Tagan Griffin ◽  
John H. Wolfe ◽  
Stephen Zderic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Receptor Antagonist ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Bladder Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Bladder Capacity ◽  
Urinary Dysfunction ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Inhibitory Influence ◽  
Partial Bladder Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Final Stress

Barrington's nucleus, in the pons, regulates micturition through spinal projections to preganglionic parasympathetic neurons. The stress neuropeptide CRF is prominent in these projections and has an inhibitory influence. Social stress in rats causes urinary retention and abnormal urodynamics resembling those produced by partial bladder outlet obstruction (pBOO), and this is associated with CRF upregulation in Barrington's nucleus. Here, we examined the role of CRF in social stress- and pBOO-induced urodynamic dysfunction by assessing the ability of a CRF1 receptor antagonist to alter these effects. Male rats exposed to repeated resident-intruder stress were administered vehicle or a CRF1 antagonist (NBI-30775) daily prior to the stress. Urodynamic function was recorded in the unanesthetized state 72 h after the final stress. NBI-30775 prevented the increased intermicturition interval, micturition volume, and bladder capacity produced by social stress, but not the increase in CRF expression in Barrington's nucleus neurons. The urinary dysfunction was also partly prevented by shRNA targeting of CRF in Barrington's nucleus, suggesting that stress-induced urinary dysfunction results, in part, from CRF upregulation in Barrington's nucleus and enhanced postsynaptic effects in the spinal cord. Finally, NBI-30775 improved urodynamic function of rats that had pBOO of 2-wk duration when administered daily during the second week but did not block the increase in CRF expression in Barrington's nucleus neurons. These findings implicate a role for Barrington's nucleus CRF in stress- and pBOO-induced urodynamic changes and suggest that CRF1 antagonists may be useful therapeutic agents for the treatment of urinary dysfunction.

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