Parameters of the functional and morphological status of the upper digestive tract in alcohol-dependent male patients with depression and alexithymia in the context of autonomic nervous system activity and nitric oxide plasma level

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Świa̧tkowski, Maciej ^a   Budzyński, Jacek ^a   Kłopocka, Maria ^a   Ziółkowski, Marcin ^a   Bujak, Robert ^b   Sinkiewicz, Władysław ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Wojewodzki Szpital im Dr J Biziela w Bydgoszczy   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alcoholics; Alexithymia; Depression; Esophageal pH metry; Gastric pH metry; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PERISTALSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; THORAX PAIN; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ALCOHOLISM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEST PAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 1242330828     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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