Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 469-477.e1 , February 2010

Postprandial Changes in Small Bowel Water Content in Healthy Subjects and Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  • Luca Marciani

      Affiliations

    • Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Eleanor F. Cox

      Affiliations

    • Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Caroline L. Hoad

      Affiliations

    • Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Susan Pritchard

      Affiliations

    • Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • John J. Totman

      Affiliations

    • Brain and Body Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Steve Foley

      Affiliations

    • Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Amisha Mistry

      Affiliations

    • Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Steven Evans

      Affiliations

    • Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Penny A. Gowland

      Affiliations

    • Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Robin C. Spiller

      Affiliations

    • Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Prof Robin Spiller, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom. fax: (44) 0115 9422232

Received 17 July 2009 ,Accepted 21 October 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding This study was partly funded by a NHS R&D Pump Priming grant and by a University of Nottingham Research Imaging Fund grant.

PII: S0016-5085(09)01954-4

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.10.055

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 469-477.e1 , February 2010

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