Functional Innervation Patterns in the Corpus Spongiosum and Glans in the Dog
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Urology
- Vol. 62 (6) , 597-602
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410x.1988.tb04435.x
Abstract
Summary—The neural control of smooth muscle cells in the corpus spongiosum, helicine artery and bulbus giandis of the dog was investigated in relation to the mechanism involved in erection, using isometric tension recording and micro‐electrode methods.In the corpus spongiosum, field stimulation evoked twitch‐like contractions followed by relaxations. These relaxations were enhanced and prolonged by neostigmine and partly suppressed by atropine. Guanethidine abolished the twitch‐like contractions and increased muscle tone. The relaxations observed after pre‐treatment with guanethidine were abolished by tetrodotoxin (TTX), thereby indicating that these muscles are innervated by adrenergic excitatory, cholinergic and non‐adrenergic non‐cholinergic inhibitory nerves.In the helicine artery and bulbus glandis, field stimulation evoked contractions and these contractions were abolished by guanethidine or TTX, indicating that these muscles are innervated by adrenergic excitatory nerve fibres. After pre‐treatment with guanethidine and atropine, muscle relaxation appeared in response to field stimulation in the helicine artery but not in the bulbus giandis, indicating that the helicine artery in the corpus spongiosum is also innervated by non‐adrenergic non‐cholinergic inhibitory nerves in addition to the excitatory adrenergic nerves. In the smooth muscle cells of the corpus spongiosum, slow potential changes were correlated with spontaneous contractions and field stimulation evoked excitatory or inhibitory junction potentials.The neural mechanism involved in erection is discussed in relation to the topical difference in the autonomic innervation patterns in the corpus spongiosum, helicine artery and bulbus giandis.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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