Complete cervical or thoracic spinal cord transections delay gastric emptying and gastrointestinal transit of liquid in awake rats

Spinal Cord

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 793-799

  Gondim, F A A ^a   Alencar, H M P ^a   Rodrigues, C L ^a   Da Graca J R V ^a   Dos Santos, A A ^a   Rola, F H ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gastric emptying; Gastrointestinal motility; Gastrointestinal transit; Rats; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

PHENOLSULFONPHTHALEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SMALL INTESTINE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STOMACH; STOMACH EMPTYING; TEST MEAL; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032743856     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100923     Document Type: Article

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