Gastrointestinal motility disorders and acupuncture

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-37

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

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

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Functional gastrointestinal disorders; Gastric emptying; Gastrointestinal motility; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; COLON; COLON MOTILITY; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LARGE INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS;

EID: 77957919123     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.03.007     Document Type: Review

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