scholarly journals Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in the Lower Urinary Tract: A Workshop held in London, April 1985. (Clinical Science Vol 70, Supplement No 14.)

1987 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-124
Author(s):  
D. Rushton
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Urinary Tract ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous System ◽  
Lower Urinary Tract ◽  
Clinical Science ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous ◽  
Lower Urinary

Sympathetic nervous system and dysfunction of the lower urinary tract

1986 ◽  
Vol 70 (S14) ◽  
pp. 69s-76s ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. R. George ◽  
C. Reading
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Urinary Tract ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous System ◽  
Lower Urinary Tract ◽  
Homogeneous Group ◽  
Adrenergic Mechanisms ◽  
Detrusor Function ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous ◽  
Urethral Function ◽  
Lower Urinary

Careful clinical and investigative protocols allow the identification of a homogeneous group of patients with prostatodynia or ‘anxious bladder syndrome’ (underactive detrusor function). Psychophysiological studies and urodynamic measurements in such patients demonstrate remarkably consistent results, which, whilst lending support to the hypothesis that the sympathetic nervous system may affect bladder and urethral function, do not offer objective proof that adrenergic mechanisms are directly responsible for the observed dysfunctional state.

Thyroid hormone-catecholamine interrelationships during exposure to cold

1981 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Storm ◽  
C. van Hardeveld ◽  
A. A. H. Kassenaar
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Plasma Concentration ◽  
Thyroid Hormone ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous System ◽  
Plasma Levels ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
Exposure To Cold ◽  
Basal Plasma ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous

Abstract. Basal plasma levels for adrenalin (A), noradrenalin (NA), l-triiodothyronine (T3), and l-thyroxine (T4) were determined in rats with a chronically inserted catheter. The experiments described in this report were started 3 days after the surgical procedure when T3 and T4 levels had returned to normal. Basal levels for the catecholamines were reached already 4 h after the operation. The T3/T4 ratio in plasma was significantly increased after 3, 7, and 14 days in rats kept at 4°C and the same holds for the iodide in the 24-h urine after 7 and 14 days at 4°C. The venous NA plasma concentration was increased 6- to 12-fold during the same period of exposure to cold, whereas the A concentration remained at the basal level. During infusion of NA at 23°C the T3/T4 ratio in plasma was significantly increased after 7 days compared to pair-fed controls, and the same holds for the iodide excretion in the 24-h urine. This paper presents further evidence for a role of the sympathetic nervous system on T4 metabolism in rats at resting conditions.

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