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Experimental and clinical aspects of gastrocolic reflexes

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Tansy, M.F., Kendall, F.M. Experimental and clinical aspects of gastrocolic reflexes. Digest Dis Sci 18, 521–531 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01076606

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