title: Effect of intraperitoneal sterile urine injection on abdominal myoelectrical activity in the spinal rat model.
abstract: The abdominal muscle reflex contractions in response to intraperitoneal injection of homologous sterile urine and acid, alkaline, hypo- and hyperosmolar solutions are studied in an acute spinal rat model by conventional and integrated electromyographic techniques. Intraperitoneal injection of homologous sterile urine causes a powerful and almost immediate abdominal muscle contracture of relative short duration. This response seems not to be related to urine pH or osmolarity, since only when solutions with extreme variations in these parameters are injected intraperitoneally are significant abdominal muscle contractions observed.
authors.affiliation: Service of Urology, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gil-Salmon
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garcia-Granero
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garcia-Granero
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chuan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Espí
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000818:Animals; D003655:Decerebrate State / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007274:Injections, Intraperitoneal; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D014556:Urine / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride