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Visceral Pain: Basic Mechanisms
SUMMARY Afferent (sensory) innervation of the viscera typically involves the bilateral spinal and, for all thoracic and most abdominal organs, vagal afferents as well. Mechanosensitive spinal afferents readily sensitize and encode into the noxious range, whereas vagal afferents contribute principally…