Mapping and modeling gastrointestinal bioelectricity: From engineering bench to bedside

Physiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 310-317

  Cheng, L K ^a,b   Du, P ^a   O'Grady, G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE; MIGRATING MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STOMACH; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; INTESTINES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX, MIGRATING; STOMACH; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84883418732     PISSN: 15489213     EISSN: 15489221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00022.2013     Document Type: Review

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