A one-hour active coping stressor reduces small bowel transit time in healthy young adults

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-10

  Ditto, Blaine ^a   Miller, Sydney B ^b   Barr, Ronald G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Irritable bowel syndrome; Lactulose; Orocecal transit; Small bowel transit; Stress

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; HYDROGEN; LACTULOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0031936240     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199801000-00002     Document Type: Article

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