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A new technique for visceral pain research

Lab Animal volume 51, page 282 (2022)Cite this article

Kyloh, M.A., Hibberd, T.J. et al. Commun. Biol. 5, 915 (2022)

The dorsal root ganglia (DRG) contain the cell bodies of sensory neurons that relay sensory information, including pain signals, from the body to the central nervous system. DRG span the length of the spinal cord, and consist of ganglia at different spinal levels that project to different abdominal organs. A lack of techniques allowing the study of DRG from a particular spinal level has limited our understanding of the role of specific DRG in visceral pain signaling.

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Le Bras, A. A new technique for visceral pain research. Lab Anim 51, 282 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-022-01081-1

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