Splanchnic and pelvic mechanosensory afferents signal different qualities of colonic stimuli in mice

Gastroenterology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 166-178

  Brierley, Stuart M ^a,b   Jones III, R Carter W ^c,d   Gebhart, Gerald F ^c   Blackshaw, L Ashley ^a,b  

^a HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

LSN; lumbar splanchnic nerve; pelvic nerve; PN

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 3242727042     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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