Gender bias in gastroparesis: Is nitric oxide the answer?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2520-2527

  Gangula, P R R ^a   Sekhar, K R ^b   Mukhopadhyay, S ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric motility; Gastroparesis; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; Sex hormones; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; SEX HORMONE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH DYSFUNCTION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH PARESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; FEMALE; GASTROPARESIS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 80054756040     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1735-6     Document Type: Review

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