Vagal nerve function in obesity: Therapeutic implications

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1995-2006

  Kral, John G ^a   Paez, Wencesley ^b   Wolfe, Bruce M ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATROPINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CAPSAICIN; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ETOMOXIR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE; GHRELIN; HYOSCYAMINE; METHYLENE BLUE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; APPETITE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLEEDING; CATABOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRAIN; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIGENETICS; ERUCTATION; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROENTEROSTOMY; GASTROPLASTY; GASTROSCOPY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFECTION; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINERAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE TONE; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTIC ULCER; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PYLOROPLASTY; PYLORUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH PARESIS; STRESS; TRUNCUS VAGOTOMY; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 70349314685     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0138-8     Document Type: Review

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