IDENTIFICATION AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY IN THE RAT URINARY TRACT: URETER, URINARY BLADDER.

Simultaneous recording of spontaneous electrical activity was conducted from the ending areas of the ureter (the zone bordered with pyeloureteral anastomosis and bladder, respectively), as well as of the proximal part of the bladder. Normally the activity of the distal ureter zone is a propagating from the perirenal area action potentials with increased amplitude (100 microV). In these conditions from the bladder were recorded action potentials with relatively lower values of amplitude and frequency rhythm (31.9 microV and 17 min(-1), respectively). Isolation of investigating ureter areas from each other and from the bladder leads to the emergence of spike activity in the peribladder area different from that in norm: in the background of oscillating waves arises the action potential. Isolation of the ureter from the bladder also affects the nature of the initial activity. Of all analyzed parameters of activity change (decrease) only the amplitude and the frequency of action potentials reaching respectively 24.5 microV and 14.2 min(-1). The results indicate the presence of different types of autonomous spontaneous activity in the extreme zones of the ureter and bladder. The adjustment of these activity parameters in the areas can be provided by their relationship with each other.