Pelvic Nerve Input Mediates Descending Modulation of Homovisceral Processing in the Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord of the Rat

Gastroenterology

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1544-1553

  Wang, Gexin ^a,b   Tang, Bin ^a   Traub, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; COLON; COLON DILATATION; DORSAL ROOT; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEURECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COLON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; LIDOCAINE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC NERVES; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 35648993597     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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