New treatments for IBS

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-23

  Halland, Magnus ^a   Talley, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; ASIMADOLINE; AST 120; AV 608; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; COLESEVELAM; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; DEXLOXIGLUMIDE; DIGESTIVE TRACT AGENT; DISACCHARIDE; JNJ 38488502; LINACLOTIDE; LUBIPROSTONE; LX 1031; MEBEVERINE; MESALAZINE; MONOSACCHARIDE; NARONAPRIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PEXACERFONT; PLACEBO; POLYOL; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PRUCALOPRIDE; RAMOSETRON; RIFAXIMIN; TEGASEROD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VELUSETRAG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUPUNCTURE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COLON ISCHEMIA; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIETARY FIBER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IRRITABLE COLON; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871964134     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.207     Document Type: Review

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