Pharmacological dissection of the human gastro-oesophageal segment into three sphincteric components

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 580, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 961-975

  Brasseur, James G ^a   Ulerich, Rhys ^a   Dai, Qing ^b   Patel, Dalipkumar K ^b   Soliman, Ahmed M S ^b   Miller, Larry S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CISATRACURIUM; ATRACURIUM; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; LUNG INFLATION; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DIAPHRAGM; DRUG EFFECT; INNERVATION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE;

ADULT; ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DIAPHRAGM; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; PRESSURE;

EID: 34249854930     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.124032     Document Type: Article

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