Motility in the isolated mouse colon: Migrating motor complexes, myoelectric complexes and pressure waves

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-266

  Powell, Andrew K ^a,b   Fida, R ^a   Bywater, R A R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colonic migrating motor complex; Electrophysiology; Enteric nervous system; Myoelectric complex; Peristalsis

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHONIUM; N(G) NITROARGININE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MIGRATING MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX; MOTOR CONTROL; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; COLON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX, MIGRATING; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0037827651     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.2003.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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