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Article: Research reports on hypersensitivity from X.J. Yang and colleagues provide new insights.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 20, 2009
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"Background and Aim Synaptic plasticity plays an important role in affecting the intensity of visceral reflex. It may also be involved in the development of visceral hypersensitivity," scientists in Wuhan, People's Republic of China report (see also Hypersensitivity).
"The aim of this study was to investigate the role of synaptic plasticity on visceral hypersensitivity of rats infected by Trichinella spiralis. Thirty male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into control, acute, and chronic infection groups, and were investigated at 1 week after adaptive feeding and at 2 and 8 weeks post infection (PI) by oral administration of 1 ml phosphate-buffered ...