The Effects of Immune Cells and Inflammation On Smooth Muscle and Enteric Nerves

Chapter 1 Acute and Chronic Inflammation, Chapter 2 Healing and Repair, Chapter 3 Cholesterol Feeding and Gallbladder Muscle Contractility, Chapter 4 Inflammation Alters Smooth Muscle Function in the Gut: Studies on the Nematode-Infected Rat, Chapter 5 Specific Effect of Infection and Malnutrition on Intestinal Longitudinal Smooth Muscle Response in Yersinia Enterocolitica in the Rabbit, Chapter 6 In Vivo Colonic Motility and Transit in Ulcerative Colitis, Chapter 7 Effect of Mucosal Inflammation on Colonic Smooth Muscle Contraction, Chapter 8 In Vivo Motor Response to Gut Inflammation, Chapter 9 An Investigation In Vitro of the Properties of the Individual Muscle Layers of the Rabbit Colon in an Induced Colitis, Chapter 10 Smooth Muscle Function in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chapter 11 Collagen Production by the Intestinal Smooth Muscle Cell in Response to Inflammation: Wound Healing in the Gut, Chapter 12 Smooth Muscle Growth in the Inflamed Intestine of the Rat, Chapter 13 Ultrastructure of Human Gastrointestinal System. Interactions Among Mast Cells, Eosinophils, Nerves and Muscle in Human Disease, Chapter 14 Gut Neuropeptides and the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chapter 15 Immunomodulation of Electrical and Synaptic Behavior of Myenteric Neurons of Guinea Pig Small Intestine During Infection with Trichinella Spiralis, Chapter 16 Visceral Afferent Innervation and Inflammation, Chapter 17 Intestinal Inflammation in the Parasitized Host, Chapter 18 Strategies for Elucidating Immunological Mechanisms in Intestinal Smooth Muscle Pathophysiology, Chapter 19 Mast Cell and Muscle Interactions in Animals and Man, Chapter 20 The Effect of Activated Inflammatory Cells on Colonic Smooth Muscle Contraction, Chapter 21 Lymphocyte Interactions with Smooth Muscle Cells and Nerves, Chapter 22 Inflammatory Mediators and Gastrointestinal Motility, Chapter 23 Putative Mediators in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Substance P and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide, Chapter 24 The Role of Granulocyte-Derived Oxidants in Intestinal Mucosal Injury, Chapter 25 Role of Interleukin-1 in Experimental Colitis, Chapter 26 Intestinal Muscle Effects of Clostridium Difficile Toxins, Chapter 27 Ischemia-Reperfusion: A Model of Acute Intestinal Inflammation, Chapter 28 Intestinal Effects of Bacterial Chemotactic Peptides: Induction of Inflammmation, Release of Eicosanoids, Chapter 29 Idiopathic Colitis and Colon Cancer in the Cotton-Top Tamarin, Chapter 30 Modulation of Gallbladder Contraction by the Oxidant Monochloramine, Index