Sentences with phrase «proximal gut motility»

The amount of lactulose used by us is far below the 20 g lactulose used by Ropert et al (13) to affect proximal gut motility and gastric tone, but Piche et al (14) obtained more relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter with only 6.6 g fructooligosaccharide, a substrate similar to lactulose in its rate and extent of fermentation.