Erythromycin accelerates gastric emptying in a dose-response manner in healthy subjects

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-8

  Boivin, Michel A ^a   Carey, Michael C ^a   Levy, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSURE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH PAIN; VOMITING;

EID: 0037224416     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.23.1.5.31919     Document Type: Article

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