Patent ID: 8923970
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a physiological state of a subject, comprising: (a) determining that it is desired to affect functioning of a system of the subject, the functioning being selected from the group consisting of: renal functioning, and cardiovascular functioning; and (b) in response thereto, affecting the selected functioning in the desired manner, by electrically stimulating a urine carrying portion of a urinary system of the subject selected from the group consisting of: a ureter, a trigone, a uretero-vesical junction, a urethra, a renal pelvis, an internal structure of the kidney, a lumen in the kidney, and a bladder, the electrical stimulation of the selected portion causing a therapeutic change in a value of at least one parameter, relative to a value of the parameter in an absence of the electrical stimulation being applied to the selected portion, the parameter being selected from the group consisting of: glomerular filtration rate, renal blood flow, diuresis, and natriuresis.