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  2. Prokinetic agent - Wikipedia

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    Activation of a wide range of serotonin receptors by serotonin itself or by certain prokinetic drugs results in enhanced gastrointestinal motility. [3] Other prokinetic drugs may increase acetylcholine concentrations by stimulating the M 1 receptor which causes acetylcholine release, or by inhibiting the enzyme acetylcholinesterase which ...

  3. Cisapride - Wikipedia

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    Cisapride is a gastroprokinetic agent, a drug that increases motility in the upper gastrointestinal tract. It acts directly as a serotonin 5-HT 4 receptor agonist and indirectly as a parasympathomimetic. Stimulation of the serotonin receptors increases acetylcholine release in the enteric nervous system.

  4. Bethanechol - Wikipedia

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    The muscarinic receptors in the bladder and gastrointestinal tract stimulate contraction of the bladder and expulsion of urine, and increased gastrointestinal motility, respectively. Bethanechol should be used to treat these disorders only after mechanical obstruction is ruled out as a possible cause.

  5. Mosapride - Wikipedia

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    Mosapride is a gastroprokinetic agent that acts as a selective 5HT 4 agonist.The major active metabolite of mosapride, known as M1, additionally acts as a 5HT 3 antagonist, [1] which accelerates emptying throughout the whole of the gastrointestinal tract in humans, [2] and is used for the treatment of gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, functional dyspepsia [3] and irritable bowel ...

  6. Prucalopride - Wikipedia

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    Prucalopride is contraindicated where there is hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients, renal impairment requiring dialysis, intestinal perforation or obstruction due to structural or functional disorder of the gut wall, obstructive ileus, severe inflammatory conditions of the intestinal tract, such as Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis and toxic megacolon ...

  7. What Is Total Daily Energy Expenditure & How Do I Calculate It?

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    This part of TDEE is also known as resting metabolic rate (RMR) or basal metabolic rate (BMR). To make matters even more complicated, the terms RMR and BMR are often used interchangeably.

  8. Domperidone - Wikipedia

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    [25] [26] [2] However, it is available in the United States for people with severe and treatment-refractory gastrointestinal motility problems under an expanded access individual-patient investigational new drug application. [25] An analogue of domperidone called deudomperidone is under development for potential use in the United States and ...

  9. ‘Doctors Dismissed My Chronic Cough As Allergies. It Was ...

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    The packages contained basic items that people could use during treatment—for example, a pre-tied turban for people who lose their hair and can’t tie one themselves, ginger candies for nausea ...