The autonomic nervous system is the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls visceral functions such as heart rate, respiratory rate and digestion. It consists of enteric ...

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2010;5(5):653-662.

COT, cross-over trial; RCT, randomized controlled trial.

Loperamide is available as an over-the-counter drug in most countries. It is a μ-opioid receptor agonist acting in the myenteric plexus of the gut. Its antidiarrhoeal effects are well established: it ...

In 2 patients with isolated and sporadic HSCR, direct DNA sequence showed heterozygosity for a G to A transition in exons 1 and 5 of the EDN3 gene, respectively, at codons 17 and 224 (fig. 2 ...