Irritable bowel syndrome and the elusive mast cells

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 727-729

  Theoharides, Theoharis C ^a,b   Asadi, Shahrzad ^a,c   Chen, Jihong ^d   Huizinga, Jan D ^e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ICOSANOID; INTERLEUKIN 6; SEROTONIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ASCENDING COLON; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYSTALGIA; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; IRRITABLE COLON; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; VISCERA; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; NOTE; RECTUM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; RECTUM;

EID: 84862318699     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2012.61     Document Type: Review

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