Our study has effectively demonstrated that deleterious changes secondary to pBOO can be altered pharmacologically. Oxybutinin and tadalafil seem to have a time-dependent protective effect on the detrusor muscle, although with different mechanisms of action. Tadalafil treatment in this setting appears to have an antifibrotic effect. This work has the potential to seed important clinical studies and improve clinical practice.
We present the first identification to our knowledge of small leucine-rich proteoglycans in normal and abnormal bladder tissue, and their differential expression in the process of bladder fibrosis, consistent with experimental findings in other anatomical sites. Further investigation into small leucine-rich proteoglycan expression and regulation may allow for the development of new antifibrotic therapeutics.
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