Motor Function of the Esophagus

Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 913-926

  Clouse, Ray E ^a   Diamant, Nicholas E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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