title: From urothelial signalling to experiencing a sensation related to the urinary bladder.
abstract: The mechanisms underlying bladder sensation and the way we experience sensations during normal voiding and in pathology is complex and not well understood. During storage and emptying, mechanical changes occurring in number of cell types within the bladder wall (i.e. the uroepithelium and bladder afferents) can have a major influence on our sensory systems. In this review, we discuss bladder sensation with a focus on coding events in the periphery.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. lbirder@pitt.edu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Birder
authors.forename: J-J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Wyndaele
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology*; D019459:Urothelium / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology*