… bowel syndrome patient, a precise, reproducible, and objective definition of this syndrome
… confronting a review of any aspect of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The resultant variability …

… An increased awareness of intestinal distention or contraction is implicated in … bowel
syndrome. This study aimed to test this hypothesis in 20 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome …

… motility was propulsive; jejunal bursts were also sometimes associated with abdominal
symptoms. We conclude that motility of the smaJJ intestine … that smal1 intestinal motility deviated …

… colonic and small bowel motility in IBS point to a number of distinct motility abnormalities
in … to the effects of provocative stimuli on intestinal motility, including stimulation by drugs, …

… intestinal pseudo-obstruction, and irritable bowel syndrome (… its effect on small-bowel motility
in humans was addressed in … ••] ; small-intestinal motility is under tonic inhibition by nitrergic …

… nerve stimulation, a large body of literature (reviewed in 55 and 56) has accumulated
suggesting the involvement of adrenergic pathways in the physiological control of intestinal motility …

… Small intestinal motility Cann and coworkers (9) found that small bowel transit after a meal
… Kumar and Wingate (26) reported that interdigestive small intestinal motility in IBS patients …

… the whole small intestine'6 or … intestinal motility from sites spanning the jejunum and
proximal ileum in ambulant IBS patients and healthy volunteers, and to measure small intestinal …

… small-intestinal transit than controls [7], In summary, a small-intestinal motility pattern spe
cific for IBS could not be proven, nor was there a clear relation between motility events and …

… The significant changes in small-bowel motility observed in the present study are particularly
interesting given that the stressors were of relatively short duration and did not pose a …