Table 1.

Comparison of proportions of mechanosensitive colorectal afferents

	Present Study	Brierley et al. (6)	Hughes et al. (21)
Pelvic
Muscular/mucosal	22%	23%	24%
Muscular	22%	21%	13%
Mucosal	20%	23%	38%
Serosal	37%	33%	25%
Lumbar splanchnic
Muscular	10%	10%	17%
Mucosal	1%	4%	4%
Serosal	47%	36%	44%
Mesenteric	42%	50%	35%