Electroacupuncture Improves IBS Visceral Hypersensitivity by Inhibiting the Activation of Astrocytes in the Medial Thalamus and Anterior Cingulate Cortex

A new model of chronic visceral hypersensitivity in adult rats induced by colon irritation during postnatal development

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Inflammation, Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder, Allergy +10

Regional cerebral activation in irritable bowel syndrome and control subjects with painful and nonpainful rectal distention

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Neuropsychology, Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder, Neuroanatomy +11

Projections of the central medial nucleus of the thalamus in the rat: Node in cortical, striatal and limbic forebrain circuitry

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Neural Mechanism, Limbic Forebrain Circuitry, Hypothalamus +14

Identification of the Visceral Pain Pathway Activated by Noxious Colorectal Distension in Mice

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Retracted: Enhanced responses of the anterior cingulate cortex neurones to colonic distension in viscerally hypersensitive rats

Jun Gao, Xiaoyin Wu, Chung Owyang et al. · The Journal of Physiology · 2005 · 77 citations · Full text