Sublingual nitroglycerine: Effects on contractile activity of the distal eosophagus and lower oesophageal sphincter in healthy men

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 883-888

  Stacher, G ^a,b   Schneider, C ^a   Steinringer, H ^a   Satzinger, U ^a   Weber, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Psychophysiologisches Laboratorium   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029804466     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.1996.102274000.x     Document Type: Article

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