Pacemaker activity and inhibitory neurotransmission in the colon of Ws/Ws mutant rats

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Alberti E ^a   Mikkelsen, H B ^b   Wang, X Y ^c   Diaz M ^d   Larsen, J O ^b   Huizinga, J D ^c   Jimenez M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

c kit; Colonic motility; Fast Fourier transform; Inhibitory junction potential; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Slow waves; Stereology

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; GENE MUTATION; INNERVATION; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COLON; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NITRERGIC NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROARGININE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 34447511636     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00136.2006     Document Type: Article

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