Mechanisms and potential applications of intestinal electrical stimulation

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1208-1220

  Yin, Jieyun ^a   Chen, Jiande D Z ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Gastrointestinal motility; Mechanisms; Obesity; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; DATA BASE; ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTESTINAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SMALL INTESTINE ABSORPTION; SPIKE WAVE; STOMACH FUNCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INNERVATION; INTESTINE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INTESTINES; OBESITY;

EID: 77953630788     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-009-0884-3     Document Type: Review

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