Basic mechanisms of the aging gastrointestinal tract

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-117

  Salles, N ^a  

^a Ctr Geriatrie Ctr Hosp Univ B   (France)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal aging; Geriatrics; Motor and histological changes

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANOREXIA; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CONSTIPATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH SECRETION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACID; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34247534646     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099474     Document Type: Review

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