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Volume 146, Issue 1 , Pages 41-46 , November 2009

Intestinal membrane permeability and hypersensitivity in the irritable bowel syndrome

  • QiQi Zhou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    • Research Service, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • ,
  • Buyi Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • ,
  • G. Nicholas Verne

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    • Research Service, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Ohio State University, 395 West 12th Avenue, Office Tower 288A, Columbus, OH 43210, United States. Tel.: +1 614 214 3664; fax: +1 614 247 6924.

Received 8 December 2008 ,Revised 9 June 2009 ,Accepted 9 June 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00340-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.017

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Volume 146, Issue 1 , Pages 41-46 , November 2009