Tension receptors: Theoretical construct or fact? [1] (multiple letters)

Gastroenterology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 803-804

  Gregersen, Hans ^a   Drewes, Asbjørn M ^a   Gilja, Odd Helge ^a   Tack, Jan ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPEPSIA; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; LETTER; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH FUNCTION; STOMACH MUSCLE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY; VISCOELASTICITY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

DYSPEPSIA; GASTRIC DILATATION; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 17844380770     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.01.020     Document Type: Letter

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