Sensory and motor function of the esophagus: Lessons from ultrasound imaging

Gastroenterology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 487-497

  Mittal, Ravinder K ^a,b   Liu, Jianmin ^a,b   Puckett, James L ^b   Bhalla, Vikas ^a,b   Bhargava, Valmik ^a,b   Tipnis, Neelish ^a,b   Kassab, Ghassan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; ESOPHAGUS SPASM; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MANOMETRY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; ULTRASOUND; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, UPPER; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN;

EID: 14944341669     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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