Gastrointestinal motility and its enteric actors in mechanosensitivity: past and present

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 467, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 191-200

  Mazet, Bruno ^a  

^a University of Mediterranée   (France)

Author keywords

Endocrine cells; Enteric neurons; Gastrointestinal motility; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Mechanosensitivity; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; CELL SWELLING; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MIGRATING MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STOMACH EMPTYING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84922004397     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-014-1635-7     Document Type: Review

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