Effects of Giardia lamblia infection on gastrointestinal transit and contractility in Mongolian gerbils

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2411-2419

  Deselliers, L P ^a   Tan, D T M ^a   Scott, R B ^a   Olson, M E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Giardia; Giardiasis; Motility; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

BETHANECHOL; CHROMIUM 51;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GERBIL; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; INTESTINE MUSCLE; JEJUNUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ANIMALS; BETHANECHOL; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GERBILLINAE; GIARDIASIS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0031417866     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018879621272     Document Type: Article

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