Letter: Prunes for the treatment of constipation

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 234-

  Pasalar, M ^a,b   Lankarani, K B ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SECRETION; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LETTER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAVEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY FIBER; PRUNUS; THERAPEUTIC USE;

CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; HUMANS; PRUNUS;

EID: 84918538751     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.13018     Document Type: Letter

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