Long-term sensitization of mechanosensitive and -insensitive afferents in mice with persistent colorectal hypersensitivity

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Bin ^a   La, Jun Ho ^a   Schwartz, Erica S ^a   Tanaka, Takahiro ^a   McMurray, Timothy P ^a   Gebhart, G F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Colorectal distension; Irritable bowel syndrome; Pelvic pain; Single fiber recording; Visceral afferent sensitization

Indexed keywords

ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON DILATATION; COLORECTAL HYPERSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE PRODUCT; INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICALLY INSENSITIVE AFFERENT; MECHANICALLY SENSITIVE AFFERENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; ZYMOSAN;

EID: 84859471835     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00490.2011     Document Type: Article

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