[Neurotransmission and the lower urinary system]

Various substances, called neurotransmitters, act as a chemical relay between the nervous and the tissue of the lower urinary tract. Some play also a role inside the muscle cell modulating the activity of the myofibrils. To allow a better pharmacochemical approach, these substances are described, their activity analyzed, with the purpose of helping specialists concerned by investigation or treatment of the lower urinary tract, to be able to act on their activity or change their pathologic abnormalities.