Synchrony between circular and longitudinal muscle contractions during peristalsis in normal subjects

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Mittal, Ravinder K ^a,b   Padda, Bikram ^a   Bhalla, Vikas ^a   Bhargava, Valmik ^a   Liu, Jianmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Intraluminal ultrasound; Manometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASOUND; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

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

EID: 33644981349     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00237.2005     Document Type: Article

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