Propagation of slow waves in the guinea-pig gastric antrum

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 571, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 165-177

  Hirst, G David S ^a   Garcia Londoño, A Pilar ^a   Edwards, Frank R ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH POTENTIAL; STOMACH WALL; STUDENT T TEST; ANTRAL INTERSTITIAL CELL; CALIBRATION; CIRCULAR MUSCLE LAYER; CIRCUMFERENTIAL CONDUCTION VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTANCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GREATER CURVATURE; LEYDIG CELL; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; OROANAL CONDUCTION VELOCITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW WAVE PROPAGATION; STOMACH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PERISTALSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PYLORIC ANTRUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645859324     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.100735     Document Type: Article

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