Abstract
Nervous control of the bladder implies conscious control imposed on an intrinsic emptying mechanism by important centres in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, sacral spinal cord and the bladder wall, linked by excitatory and inhibitory pathways (p.55).
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Brown, R.B. (1982). The Neurogenic Bladder. In: Clinical Urology Illustrated. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8096-9_11
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