Origin and propagation of individual slow waves along the intact feline small intestine

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 334-346

  Lammers, Wim J E P ^a,b   Stephen, Betty ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; ILEOCECAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE; LIGATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PYLORUS; SMALL INTESTINE SLOW WAVE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 39149096222     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.039180     Document Type: Article

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