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Review
. 2008 Nov:1144:256-64.
doi: 10.1196/annals.1418.025.

Studying the brain-gut axis with pharmacological imaging

Kirsten Tillisch  1 , Zhuo Wang, Lisa Kilpatrick, Daniel P Holschneider, Emeran A Mayer
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Review

Studying the brain-gut axis with pharmacological imaging

Kirsten Tillisch et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008 Nov.

Abstract

Pharmacological imaging provides great potential both for evaluating the efficacy of new candidate compounds in the treatment of gastrointestinal symptom-based disorders, and for furthering our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of such disorders. By combining evaluation of symptoms, behavior, and brain responses to relevant stimuli, use of neuroimaging is able to move the study of brain-gut disorders away from more subjective outcomes and emphasize the underlying neural networks involved in symptom generation and treatment. This chapter reviews the state of the art in pharmacological imaging studies, both in human subjects and in animal models of brain-gut interactions.

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