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Amphotericin-B Mediated Perforated Patch-Clamp Analysis: An Electrophysiological Technique to Study Ionic Currents in Urinary Bladder Cells
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2023
This video demonstrates the characterization of cationic currents from transient receptor potential melastatin type 4 (TRPM4) ion channels in detrusor smooth muscle cells using amphotericin-B mediated perforated patch-clamp technique. The technique helps evaluate the biophysical and pharmacological properties of ion channels.
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Bladder Tumor Organoid Model: A Method for Orthotopic Transplantation of Bladder Organoids into Recipient Murine Bladder
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2023
In this video, we describe the orthotopic transplantation of cultured bladder tumor organoids into the murine bladder to study the role of the organ environment on developing tumors.
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Urinary Bladder Distention Evoked Visceromotor Responses as a Model for Bladder Pain in Mice
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2014
Approximately 3-8 million people in the United States suffer from interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), a debilitating condition characterized in part by pelvic pain. In order to study nervous system contributions to the condition, a physiological model of urinary bladder pain is used in mice and rats.
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Mouse Bladder Wall Injection
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2011
Mouse bladder wall injection is a useful approach to orthotopically study bladder stem cell and cancer biology. This delicate microsurgical method can be mastered with careful technique and practice.
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The Use of Cystometry in Small Rodents: A Study of Bladder Chemosensation
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2012
Cystometry is an efficient technique to measure bladder function of small animals in vivo. The bladder is continuously infused at rates controlled through an intravesical catheter, whereas the urethra is left free for micturition. This allows for repetitive filling and emptying of the bladder, while intravesical pressure and voided volume are recorded.
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A patch can function as more than a physical closure. When its surface supports host-cell attachment, it provides a site where cells can populate the repaired region. The same construct may support vascularization and regeneration of the urothelial lining and smooth muscle. This links material placement with restoration of bladder wall biology.
Material choice and patch design influence how the repair construct functions. Biological tissue patches and biomaterial-based engineered patches represent different ways to provide support for the damaged wall. The available description does not identify one material as universally superior; instead, it indicates that composition and design can affect scaffold activity, cellular attachment, vascularization, and regeneration.
Vascularization has a specific place in the regenerative goal of bladder patch reconstruction. The patch may provide a scaffold that supports vascularization together with host-cell attachment and rebuilding of the urothelial lining and smooth muscle. Considering these processes together helps researchers evaluate whether a construct can support restoration of bladder wall tissue, rather than only cover a defect.
Securing the patch to surrounding tissue is a key operative step because it positions the construct over the damaged bladder wall. This placement allows the patch to maintain contact with the repair site while it serves as a potential scaffold for host-cell attachment, vascularization, and regeneration. The procedure therefore combines physical stabilization with biological repair objectives.
Researchers may apply bladder patch reconstruction in studies of congenital abnormalities, injury, disease, or conditions requiring bladder augmentation. These applications give the approach a broad biological and translational scope: the same general strategy can be examined as a model of tissue repair and as a basis for developing treatments.
In biology, this approach connects surgical repair with tissue engineering by allowing researchers to examine how a placed material supports host-cell attachment and regeneration. Key outcomes of interest include vascularization and restoration of both the urothelial lining and smooth muscle. Studying these outcomes helps distinguish structural coverage from development of biologically functional bladder tissue.