The aging colon: The role of enteric neurodegeneration in constipation

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 507-512

  Wiskur, Brandt ^a   Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; Constipation; Enteric nerves; Extrinsic nerves

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGING; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIMATE; REVIEW; RODENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STOMACH DISTENSION; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLON; CONSTIPATION; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; SUBMUCOUS PLEXUS;

EID: 78649917621     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-010-0139-7     Document Type: Review

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