Colonic responses to gas loads in subgroups of patients with abdominal bloating

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 876-882

  Hernando Harder, Ana C ^a,b,c,d   Serra, Jordi ^a,b,c,e   Azpiroz, Fernando ^a,b,c   Milà, Marta ^a   Aguadé, Santiago ^a   Malagelada, Carolina ^a,b,c   Tremolaterra, Fabrizio ^a,b,c,f   Villoria, Albert ^a,b,c   Malagelada, Juan R ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b Centro de Investigaci O N Biom e Dica en Red de Enfermedades Hep A Ticas y Digestivas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENON 133;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BLOATING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GAS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; IRRITABLE COLON; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSATION; SYMPTOM;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLON; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 77950499967     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2010.75     Document Type: Article

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