Chronic constipation: No more idiopathic, but a true neuropathological entity

Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 109-115

  Bassotti, Gabrio ^a   Villanacci, Vincenzo ^b   Nejad, Mohammad Rostami ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Department of Pathology Spedali Civili of Brescia ^*  (Italy)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Constipation; Enteric glial cells; Enteric nervous system; Enteric neurons

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PRION PROTEIN; SUBSTANCE P;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC CONSTIPATION; CONSTIPATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAST CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79960641383     PISSN: 20082258     EISSN: 20084234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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