Physiological characteristics of gastric contractions and circadian gastric motility in the free-moving conscious house musk shrew (Suncus murinus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Sakahara, Satoshi ^a   Xie, Zuoyun ^a   Koike, Kanako ^a   Hoshino, Satoya ^a   Sakata, Ichiro ^b   Oda, Sen Ichi ^c   Takahashi, Toku ^d   Sakai, Takafumi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric motility; Ghrelin; Migrating motor complex; Motilin; Suncus

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MOTILIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DUODENUM; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROSA; SHREW; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH MUSCLE; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ERYTHROMYCIN; FASTING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTILIN; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SHREWS; STOMACH;

EID: 77957604330     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00278.2010     Document Type: Article

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