Insights into mechanisms of intestinal segmentation in guinea pigs: A combined computational modeling and in vitro study

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Chambers, Jordan D ^a   Bornstein, Joel C ^a   Thomas, Evan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Enteric nervous system; Enteric reflex circuits; Fed state postprandial motor pattern; Feedforward networks; Myenteric plexus

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; DECANOIC ACID; DECANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; GUINEA PIG; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECANOIC ACIDS; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GUINEA PIGS; INTERNEURONS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53449101504     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.90303.2008     Document Type: Article

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