Convergence of bladder and colon sensory innervation occurs at the primary afferent level

Pain

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-243

  Christianson, Julie A ^a   Liang, Ruomei ^a   Ustinova, Elena E ^a   Davis, Brian M ^a   Fraser, Matthew O ^b   Pezzone, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Afferent; Alexa Fluor; Cholera toxin B; Convergence; Doral root ganglia; Pain; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS ALLERGY; DESCENDING COLON; GANGLION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; COLON; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33847643367     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.09.023     Document Type: Article

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