Transmission of Rectal Electric Waves: Is it through Circular or Longitudinal Smooth Muscle Layers or Both?

Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 127-134

  Shafik, A ^a,c   El Sibai, O ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action; Myotomy; Defecation; Disorders; Potentials; Mechanism; Multiunit; Pacesetter; Rectosigmoid pacemaker; Smooth muscle; Single unit

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEFECATION; DOG; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RECTUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DEFECATION; DOGS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PRESSURE; RECTUM;

EID: 0035322738     PISSN: 13813455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/apab.109.2.127.4274     Document Type: Article

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