Letter: Serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms and the irritable bowel syndrome

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 657-658

  Dai, C ^a   Zheng, C Q ^a   Jiang, M ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN AGONIST; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

COLON MOTILITY; COLONIC SECRETION; DIARRHEA; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER GENE;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84874088313     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.12222     Document Type: Letter

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