Impaired ghrelin signaling is associated with gastrointestinal dysmotility in rats with gastroesophageal reflux disease

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nahata, Miwa ^a   Muto, Shuichi ^b,c   Oridate, Nobuhiko ^d   Ohnishi, Shunsuke ^b   Nakagawa, Koji ^e   Sadakane, Chiharu ^a,e   Saegusa, Yayoi ^a,e   Hattori, Tomohisa ^a   Asaka, Masahiro ^b   Takeda, Hiroshi ^b,e  

^a Tsumura Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology ^*  (Japan)

^c Tomakomai City General Hospital   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Food intake; Gastric emptying; Growth hormone; Rikkunshito

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; KAMPO; MESSENGER RNA; RIKKUNSHITO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH EMPTYING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ANIMALS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; DUODENUM; EATING; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH;

EID: 84863509381     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00462.2011     Document Type: Article

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