Role of sensitized pelvic nerve afferents from the inflamed rat colon in the maintenance of visceral hyperalgesia

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue , 2000, Pages 375-387

  Coutinho, S V ^a,b   Su, X ^a   Sengupta, J N ^a,c   Gebhart, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0034589730     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(00)29029-8     Document Type: Article

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