Colonic transit, bowel movements, stool form, and abdominal pain in irritable bowel syndrome by treatments with calcium polycarbophil

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 65, 2005, Pages 1416-1420

  Chiba, Toshimi ^a   Kudara, Norihiko ^a   Sato, Masaki ^a   Chishima, Raita ^a   Abiko, Yukito ^a   Inomata, Masaaki ^a   Orii, Seishi ^a   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Calcium polycarbophil; Colonic transit; IBS

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBOPHIL CALCIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACRYLIC RESINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIDIARRHEALS; CATHARTICS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 25844483786     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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