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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2009 Jun 30;21(12):1269–e120. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2009.01350.x

Table 5.

Correlations of gastric peptides with gastric rhythms

Plasma gastric peptide levels GMA parameters Spearman R P value
VIP (ng mL−1) ch 3 % slow wave −0.55 0.01
ch 3 % bradygastria 0.59 <0.02
ch 3 % arrhythmia 0.66 <0.01
Motilin (pg mL−1) ch 1, 2 % wave coupling 0.55 0.02

ch: channel; GMA: gastric myoelectrical activity; VIP: vasoactive intestinal peptide.