Alterations in intestinal contractility during inflammation are caused by both smooth muscle damage and specific receptor-mediated mechanisms

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 318-326

  Tanović, Adnan ^a,c   Fernández, Ester ^b   Jiménez, Marcel ^b  

^a Faculty of Science Sarajevo   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTERITIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ILEUM; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE MUSCLE; JEJUNUM; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE P; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

EID: 33646684042     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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