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Chapters
- 00:00Title
- 02:49Surgical Implantation of Urinary Bladder Catheter and Wire Electrodes
- 06:15Anesthesia Step Down
- 06:43EMG Recording During Bladder Distention
- 08:12Analysis of Raw EMG Traces
- 10:08Results
- 11:08Conclusion
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.
