Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide levels in sigmoid colon in idiopathic constipation and diverticular disease

Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 666-675

  Milner, Pamela ^a,b   Crowe, Rahima ^a,b   Kamm, Michael A ^a,b   Lennard Jones, John E ^a,b   Burnstock, Geoffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID;

CONSTIPATION; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SIGMOID; SUBSTANCE P; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0025365993     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(90)90953-X     Document Type: Article

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