Pregnancy increases excitability of mechanosensitive afférents innervating the uterine cervix

Anesthesiology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1087-1092

  Liu, Baogang ^a   Tong, Chuanyao ^a   Eisenach, James C ^b  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BREEDING; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45149134374     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31817302e0     Document Type: Article

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