Fibromyalgia: The gastrointestinal link

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 364-368

  Wallace, Daniel J ^a   Hallegua, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEOMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STEROID;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CELIAC DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPEPSIA; ENTERITIS; ERADICATION THERAPY; FIBROMYALGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH DISTENSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 5144220837     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-996-0009-z     Document Type: Review

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