Pharmacologic attenuation of pelvic pain in a murine model of interstitial cystitis
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Pharmacologic attenuation of pelvic pain in a murine model of interstitial cystitis
BACKGROUND Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) is a bladder disease that causes debilitating pelvic pain of unknown origin, and IC/PBS symptoms correlate with elevated bladder lamina propria mast cell counts. Similar to IC/PBS patients, pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection in mice induces a neurogenic cystitis associated with bladder lamina propria mast cell accumulation and p...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Urology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-2490
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-9-16