An evaluation of the use of cisapride in horses with chronic grass sickness (equine dysautonomia)

British Veterinary Journal

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 537-549

  Milne, E M ^a   Doxey, D L ^a   Woodman, M P ^a   Cuddeford, D ^a   Pearson, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SAC Veterinar Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cisapride; Gastrointestinal motility; Grass sickness; Horse

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CISAPRIDE; COBALT EDETATE; POLYSTYRENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CECUM; COLIC; COLON; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEART RATE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029780255     PISSN: 00071935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-1935(96)80006-6     Document Type: Review

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