Trauma and the gut: Interactions between stressful experience and intestinal function

Gut

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 704-709

  Stam, R ^a   Akkermans, L M A ^a,b   Wiegant, V M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; TRAUMATIC SHOCK;

EID: 0030797542     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.40.6.704     Document Type: Review

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