Urinary nerve growth factor correlates with the severity of urgency and pain: methodological evaluation

Urinary nerve growth 53 factor correlates with the severity of urgency and pain: response to comments by Agilli et al.

“…We thank Agilli et al [1] for their discussion of the restricted exclusion criteria in our study and possible effects of systemic conditions, including neuropsychiatric diseases and diabetes, on urinary nerve growth factor (NGF) [2]. NGF messenger RNA (mRNA) expression and protein production was described in various cells, including smooth muscle cells, urothelial cells, mast cells, and adipocytes.…”