Towards safer treatments for benign anorectal disease: The pharmacological manipulation of the internal anal sphincter

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 574-579

  Jones, Oliver M ^a,b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin; Glyceryl trinitrate; Internal anal sphincter; Phenylephrine

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIMETHYL 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINIUM; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ATROPINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GUANETHIDINE; LOPERAMIDE; METHOXAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; N(G) NITROARGININE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS INJURY; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PROCTOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SMOOTH MUSCLE SPASM; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SWINE; TACHYPHYLAXIS;

ANAL CANAL; ANUS DISEASES; BOTULINUM TOXINS; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROGLYCERIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 34548638944     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588407X205576     Document Type: Article

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