New protein research helps to treat urinary incontinence
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Last Update: 2013-02-21
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Have you ever heard of overactive bladder or incontinence? This is a very common but very serious disease Think about what it would be like to pee your pants in public, and you'll probably feel a little bit of the sufferings of the patients According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Federation of experimental biology, bladder epithelial cells sense the amount of fluid accumulated in the bladder through the activity of a protein called integrin When the bladder becomes full, the epithelial cells of the bladder stretch and thin, activating integrin and sending this information to the nerve cells In the future, researchers may be able to design drugs for this mechanism to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
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