Similarities and differences in female and male rat voiding

• Published in: Neurourology and urodynamics Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 136 - 141
• Main Authors: Streng, Tomi, Santti, Risto, Talo, Antti
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.01.2002
• Subjects: Animals; Female; flow rate; high-frequency oscillations of intraluminal pressure (IPHFOs); Male; Oscillometry; Pressure; rat; Rats; rhabdosphincter; Sex Characteristics; sex-difference; Time Factors; Urethra - physiology; Urinary Bladder - physiology; Urination - physiology; Urodynamics; voiding

We measured in adult rats, under anaesthesia, bladder pressure by transvesical cystometry and flow rate by an ultrasound transducer in the distal urethra. The urinary flow was discontinuous in both sexes. No difference between the sexes in bladder pressure oscillations or in non‐oscillatory voiding...