Study of the mechanism of rectal motility: The 'mass squeeze contraction'

Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 418-423

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a   El Sibai, O ^a   Mostafa, R M ^a   Shafik, I ^a  

^a NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Defecation; Defecography; Defecometry; Pace setter potentials; Reflex; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUM MOTILITY; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; RECTUM; REFLEX;

EID: 0035739060     PISSN: 13813455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/apab.109.5.418.8039     Document Type: Article

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