Effects of digestive status on the reptilian gut

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 499-518

  Holmberg, Anna ^a   Kaim, Joanna ^a   Persson, Anette ^a   Jensen, Jörgen ^a   Wang, Tobias ^b   Holmgren, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bradykinin; Feeding; Galanin; Gastrointestinal physiology; Immunohistochemistry; Innervation; Intestinal motility; Regulatory peptides; Snake; Substance P

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GALANIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; NEUROKININ A; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPTILE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SNAKE; STOMACH; THICKNESS; TIME; ANIMAL; EATING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

PYTHON MOLURUS BIVITTATUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; DIGESTION; EATING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INTESTINES;

EID: 0036849655     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00257-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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