Abnormalities in the contractile properties of colonic smooth muscle in idiopathic slow transit constipation

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-184

  Slater, B J ^a   Varma, J S ^a   Gillespie, J I ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CISAPRIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON RESECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARBACHOL; CISAPRIDE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PIPERIDINES;

EID: 0031016555     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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