Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 482-484 , July 2010

Gender variation in oesophageal motor function: Analysis of 129 healthy individuals

  • Kenneth J. Vega

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 4555 Emerson Expressway, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL 32207, United States. Tel.: +1 904 633 0089; fax: +1 904 633 0028.
    • ,
  • Carlos Palacio

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States
    • ,
  • Tracy Langford-Legg

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States
    • ,
  • Janet Watts

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States
    • ,
  • M. Mazen Jamal

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, VA Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, United States
    • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

Received 1 July 2009 ,Accepted 24 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.11.009

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 482-484 , July 2010

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