Abnormal cerebral processing of oesophageal stimuli in patients with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP)

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 555-565

  Hollerbach, S ^a,b,c   Bulat, R ^a   May, A ^a   Kamath, M V ^a   Upton, A R M ^a   Fallen, E L ^a   Tougas, G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acid reflux; Autonomic nervous system balance; Non cardiac chest pain (NCCP); Sympathetic activity; Vagal response; Visceral hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGUS; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THORAX PAIN; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS REFLEX;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; CHEST PAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034534063     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.2000.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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