Treatment and prevention of equine gastric ulcer syndrome

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 575-597

  Buchanan, Benjamin R ^a   Andrews, Frank M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; ALUMINUM MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; AMOXICILLIN; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; BETHANECHOL; BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; BISMUTH SALICYLATE; CIMETIDINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN LACTOBIONATE; FAMOTIDINE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; GASTRAFATE; GASTROGARD; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MISOPROSTOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PROKINETIC AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE; SALICYLIC ACID; SOMATOSTATIN ANALOG; SUCRALFATE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACIDOSIS; CELL HYPERPLASIA; COLITIS; COLON ULCER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; DUODENOGASTRIC REFLUX; DUODENUM ULCER; EXERCISE; EXPOSURE; FEEDING; FLATULENCE; GASTRIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROSCOPY; HEARTBURN; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HORSE; HUMAN; HYPERGASTRINEMIA; HYPERTROPHY; ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE CRAMP; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN DIET; RACE; REVIEW; SALIVATION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PH; STOMACH SECRETION; STOMACH ULCER; STRESS; TISSUE INJURY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; HORSE DISEASE; NEWBORN; PH; RISK FACTOR; SECRETION; STOMACH ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842435235     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2003.08.012     Document Type: Review

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