Spinal cord stimulation modulates activity of lumbosacral spinal neurons receiving input from urinary bladder in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 428, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-42

  Qin, Chao ^a   Farber, Jay P ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cystitis; Pelvic pain; Spinal dorsal horn; Urinary bladder distension; Visceral hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISTENSION; BLADDER INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTALGIA; CYSTITIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 35448995141     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.09.028     Document Type: Article

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