Role of the rectosigmoid pacemaker and electric activity in rectal motility: Mechanism and clinical significance

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 377-383

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a   Mostafa, Randa M ^a   Ahmed, Ismail ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^a  

^a NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Artificial pacemaker; Constipation; Pacesetter potentials; Rectosigmoid junction; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BIOMECHANICS; CATHETER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DOG; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; RECTUM; RECTUM MOTILITY; SEROSA; SIGMOID; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PERIODICITY; PRESSURE; RECTUM; ANIMALS;

EID: 0036707699     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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