Serotonin signalling in the gut-functions, dysfunctions and therapeutic targets

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 473-486

  Mawe, Gary M ^a   Hoffman, Jill M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; CISPLATIN; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; LX 1031; PLACEBO; PUMOSETRAG; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2B RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 3 AGONIST; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 4 AGONIST; SEROTONIN 4 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TEGASEROD; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LAMINA PROPRIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INDUCED EMESIS; RADIATION SICKNESS; REVIEW; SEROTONIN RELEASE; VASODILATATION; VISCERAL PAIN;

ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881479285     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.105     Document Type: Review

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