Visceral Organ Cross-sensitization - an Integrated Perspective

Overview

Journal Auton Neurosci

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Neurology

Date 2009 Aug 15

PMID 19679518

Citations 57

Authors

P R Brumovsky

G F Gebhart

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Abstract

Viscero-somatic referral and sensitization has been well documented clinically and widely investigated, whereas viscero-visceral referral and sensitization (termed cross-organ sensitization) has only recently received attention as important to visceral disease states. Because second order neurons in the CNS have been extensively shown to receive convergent input from different visceral organs, it has been assumed that cross-organ sensitization arises by the same convergence-projection mechanism as advanced for viscero-somatic referral and sensitization. However, increasing evidence also suggests participation of peripheral mechanisms to explain referral and sensitization. We briefly summarize behavioral, morphological and physiological support of and focus on potential mechanisms underlying cross-organ sensitization.

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