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  • Bioengineering
  • Information Theory

Background:

  • Restoring bladder function in patients with spinal cord injury or elderly individuals is a key challenge.
  • Bioelectronic medicines offer a potential solution through implanted devices.
  • Accurate estimation of intravesical pressure is crucial for personalized stimulation paradigms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the encoding of intravesical pressure by sensory nerve fibers.
  • To explore how information theory can inform decoding algorithms for bladder pressure estimation.
  • To investigate the potential for bioelectronic medicines in restoring bladder function.

Main Methods:

  • Applied information theory to microelectrode array recordings from cat sacral dorsal root ganglion.
  • Utilized surrogate data studies to augment experimental data.
  • Developed and applied an informed decoding approach to estimate bladder pressure.

Main Results:

  • Identified three main bladder neuron response types: slow tonic, phasic, and derivative fibers.
  • Demonstrated that encoding across different neuron types provides reliability through redundancy and high information rates.
  • Showed that decoding is more robust when using mean responses from homogeneous cell pools.

Conclusions:

  • Established a link between information-theoretic analysis of neural encoding and informed decoding for intravesical pressure.
  • Highlighted the potential of exploiting population redundancy for robust decoding, even with cell loss.
  • Paved the way for principled encoding studies and advanced peripheral nerve decoders for bioelectronic medicines.