Physiology of the esophageal pressure transition zone: Separate contraction waves above and below

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Ghosh, Sudip K ^a   Janiak, Patrick ^b   Schwizer, Werner ^b   Hebbard, Geoffrey S ^c   Brasseur, James G ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Pressure trough

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 33644966833     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00280.2005     Document Type: Article

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