Intrathecal oxytocin inhibits visceromotor reflex and spinal neuronal responses to noxious distention of the rat urinary bladder

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 515-520

  Engle, Mitchell P ^a   Ness, Timothy J ^a   Robbins, Meredith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; URETHAN;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER DISTENSION; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; VISCERAL PAIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; OXYTOCIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SPINAL NERVES; URINARY BLADDER; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84865729585     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e318266352d     Document Type: Article

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