Cystometric and External Urethral Sphincter Measurements in Awake Rats with Implanted Catheter and Electrodes Allowing for Repeated Measurements

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January 30th, 2018

DOI :

10.3791/56506-v

January 30th, 2018

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Elena E. Foditsch¹^,², Karin Roider¹^,², Andrea M. Sartori³^,⁴^,⁵, Thomas M. Kessler⁵, Sabik Raj Kayastha⁶, Ludwig Aigner², Marc P. Schneider⁷

¹Department of Urology, Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University, ²Institute of Molecular Regenerative Medicine, Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University, ³Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich, ⁴Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, ⁵Neuro-Urology, Spinal Cord Injury Center & Research, University of Zürich, Balgrist University Hospital, ⁶Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, ⁷Department of Urology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital

Summary

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Keywords Cystometric Measurement

External Urethral Sphincter

Awake Rats

Implanted Catheter

Implanted Electrodes

Repeated Measurements

Urinary Bladder Function

Chapters in this video

0:05

Title

0:41

Bladder Catheter Implantation

2:45

Urethral Sphincter Electrode Implantation

4:16

Tunneling Out the Connectors to a Harness

6:43

Connecting the Electrodes

8:31

Results: Success Rate and Cystometric Measurements

9:29

Conclusion

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