Discharge patterns of intramural mechanoreceptive afferents during selective distension of the cat's rectum

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-225

  Ruhl A ^a   Thewissen M ^a   Ross, H G ^a   Cleveland, S ^a   Frieling, T ^a   Enck, P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rectal distension; Sacral dorsal roots; Spinal afferents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; LAMINECTOMY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SENSORY NERVE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATATION; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RECTUM;

EID: 0031805438     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.1998.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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