The same dorsal root ganglion neurons innervate uterus and colon in the rat

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 209-212

  Chaban, Victor ^a,c   Christensen, Amy ^a   Wakamatsu, Micah ^b   McDonald, Michelle ^a   Rapkin, Andrea ^a   McDonald, John ^b   Micevych, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; Dorsal ganglion neurons; Retrograde labeling; Uterus

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPROTECTION; FEMALE; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; STAINING; UTERUS; UTERUS HORN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; COLON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PELVIC PAIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; UTERUS; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 33847232172     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32801231bf     Document Type: Article

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