Effect of atropine on the biomechanical properties of the oesophageal wall in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 547, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 621-628

  Takeda, Torahiko ^a   Kassab, Ghassan ^b   Liu, Jianmin ^a   Nabae, Toshinaga ^a   Mittal, Ravinder K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; WATER;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; YOUNG MODULUS; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE;

ADULT; ATROPINE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPLIANCE; DILATATION; ELASTICITY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0037338442     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.028795     Document Type: Review

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