Neural and anatomical abnormalities of the gastrointestinal system resulting from contusion spinal cord injury

Neuroscience

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1627-1638

  Kabatas, S ^a,b   Yu, D ^a,b   He, X D ^d   Thatte, H S ^d   Benedict, D ^a,b   Hepgul, K T ^e   Black, P M ^a   Sabharwal, S ^b,c   Teng, Y D ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

gastrointestinal dysfunction; IJP; nNOS; rat; spinal cord injury; VIP

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 45849092555     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.04.071     Document Type: Article

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