Mechanically restricted regional blood flow might explain gastrointestinal pain

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 378-379

  Gregersen, Hans ^a,c,d   Christensen, James ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE PRESSURE; IRRITABLE COLON; MECHANORECEPTOR; NEUROANATOMY; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TISSUE PRESSURE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NOCICEPTORS; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SPLANCHNIC NERVES;

EID: 27144431982     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0255     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Eslick GD and Talley NJ (2000) Non-cardiac chest pain: Squeezing the life out of the Australian healthcare system? Med J Aust 173: 233-234
2. Drossman DA et al. (2002) AGA technical review on irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 123: 2108-2131
3. Gregersen H (2002) Biomechanics of the gastrointestinal tract. London: Springer-Verlag
4. Rao SS et al. (1996) Unexplained chest pain: The hypersensitive, hyperreactive, and poorly compliant esophagus. Ann Intern Med 124: 950-958
5. Gao C et al. (2003) Sensory and biomechanical responses to ramp-controlled distension of the human duodenum. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 284: G461-G471
6. Furness JB et al. (1982) Substance P-like immunoreactivity in nerves associated with the vascular system of guinea-pigs. Neuroscience 7: 447-459
7. Gibbins IL et al. (1985) Co-localization of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity with substance P in cutaneous, vascular and visceral sensory neurons of guinea pigs. Neurosci Lett 57: 125-130
8. Holzer P (1992) Peptidergic sensory neurons in the control of vascular functions: Mechanisms and significance in the cutaneous and splanchnic vascular beds. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 121: 49-146
9. Luff SE et al. (2000) Ultrastructure of substance Pimmunoreactive terminals and their relation to vascular smooth muscle cells of rat small mesenteric arteries. J Comp Neurol 416: 277-290
10. Gregersen H et al. (2003) Towards a new understanding of the mechanics of the gastrointestinal tract. In Recent Research Developments in Biomechanics, vol 1, 127-158 Trivandum: Transworld Research Network