Sprouted innervation into uterine transplants contributes to the development of hyperalgesia in a rat model of endometriosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  McAllister, Stacy L ^a   Dmitrieva, Natalia ^a   Berkley, Karen J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ARTERY; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; VAGINAL CYST; VAGINAL HYPERALGESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CYST; DISEASE MODEL; INNERVATION; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSPLANTATION; UTERUS; VAGINA; VASCULARIZATION;

EVANS BLUE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYSTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EVANS BLUE; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 84857388970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031758     Document Type: Article

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