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. 2001 Feb;280(2):G255-63.
doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.2001.280.2.G255.

Gender influence on jejunal migrating motor complex

N Aytuğ  1 , A Giral, N Imeryüz, F Y Enç, N Bekiroğlu, G Aktaş, N B Ulusoy
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Gender influence on jejunal migrating motor complex

N Aytuğ et al. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2001 Feb.
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Abstract

The role of gender and the menstrual cycle in small bowel motility has not been clearly elucidated. Jejunal motility was recorded with a nasojejunal catheter incorporating five solid-state pressure transducers in ambulatory menstruating women and men of comparable age over 24 h. All women were studied twice, in the early follicular (early-F) and midluteal (mid-L) phases of the menstrual cycle, verified by determining serum levels of gonadal steroids and gonadotropins. The propagation velocity of phase III was slow and the contraction amplitude was high in both menstrual cycle phases compared with men, and these parameters were correlated with serum estrogen levels in the mid-L phase. In the early-F phase, migrating motor complex (MMC) cycle duration during sleep was long compared with other groups and positively correlated with estrogen concentrations, whereas in the mid-L phase MMC cycle duration during sleep was negatively correlated with serum progesterone levels. In all groups, the frequency of phase III contractions was low and the intercontractile interval measured from pressure peak to peak was long during sleep compared with the awake state. Postprandial motility did not display gender difference in any parameter examined. The results demonstrate that the majority of patterns of motility are similar in menstruating women and men, whereas certain aspects of the MMC, most conspicuously propagation velocity and phase III contraction amplitude, differ. We have also documented circadian variation of phase III contraction frequency in both women and men.

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