Attenuation by spinal cord stimulation of a nociceptive reflex generated by colorectal distention in a rat model

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-24

  Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a   Johnson, Anthony C ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^b   Linderoth, Bengt ^b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonic hypersensitivity; Irritable bowel syndrome; Pain; Spinal cord; Visceromotor response

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLORECTAL DISTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASM; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; VISCERAL PAIN; VISCEROMOTOR BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; COLON; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; SPINAL CORD; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 0037469969     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(02)00262-X     Document Type: Article

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