Roles of gastro-oesophageal afferents in the mechanisms and symptoms of reflux disease

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2009, Pages 227-257

  Page, Amanda J ^a   Blackshaw, L Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gastro oesophageal reflux; Lower oesophageal sphincter; Vagal afferents; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 METHYLGLUTAMIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ASIMADOLINE; BACLOFEN; BENZAMIL; BRADYKININ; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CANNABINOID; CAPSAICIN; CHOLECYSTOKININ; GALANIN; GHRELIN; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; KYNURENIC ACID; MORPHINE; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; OPIATE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANILLOID RECEPTOR; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANATOMY; BURNING SENSATION; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONSULTATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS PAIN; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INNERVATION; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUCOSAL RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTION; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECRETORY CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENSION MUCOSAL RECEPTOR; TENSION RECEPTOR; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VAGUS NERVE; VISCERAL PAIN; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CHEMORECEPTOR; ESOPHAGUS; INNERVATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REFLEX; SENSORY RECEPTOR; STOMACH;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PAIN; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; REFLEX; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STOMACH;

EID: 70349907772     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79090-7_7     Document Type: Review

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