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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2016 Mar 17;196(3):892–901. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.03.077

Table 1.

Effect of prostatitis on urinary bladder cystometric assessment.

saline zym 7d zym-14d zym-21d zym-28d
Mean peak
pressure (mmHg)
during micturition
20.0 ± 2.1 28.4 ± 2.2* 29.9 ± 3.9* 28.5 ± 2.2* 24.8 ± 2.4
Micturition pressure
threshold (mmHg)
26.6 ± 2.3 14.4 ± 3.4* 16.7 ± 4.1* 18.2 ± 4.2* 17.7 ± 4.7*
Intercontraction
interval (sec)
156.2 ± 1.9 92.5 ± 1.4* 80.0 ± 2.74* 78.0 ± 1.9* 82.6 ± 2.4*
Time to first
micturition (sec)
283.8 ± 31.1 215.6 ± 33.5* 238.2 ± 28.1 221.6 ± 26.5* 228.2 ± 26.1
# Micturition
events/20 min
8.6 ± 1.6 13.6 ± 1.9* 16.2 ± 2.4* 14.0 ± 2.1* 13.7 ± 2.4
Baseline pressure
(prior to infusion)
1.4 ± 0.4 2.5 ± 0.8 1.9 ± 0.5 2.6 ± 0.4 1.9 ± 0.1

Data are presented as mean ± SEM from control (saline)- and zymosan (zym)- treated mice 7 – 28 days after intra-prostate injection of zym. n=8 mice/treatment group.

*

p≤0.05 vs. control, two-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post-hoc test.