- Physiology and pharmacology of gastrointestinal motility
- Cellular and molecular basis of peristalsis and mixing motor patterns
- Effects of inflammation and gut bacteria on motility
Focus
- Electrophysiology of gut pacemaker cells
- Effect of probiotics and nutrients on gut motility control
- Pathophysiology of gut motor disorders
- Interactions between gut pacemaker cells and the enteric nervous system
- In vivo and ex vivo measurements of motility
Project 1 CIHR, 2010-2015
Title: Role of interstitial cells of Cajal in control of gastrointestinal motility
Project 2 NSERC 2010-2011
Title: Potassium channels and ICC excitability
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- Parsons, SP, Huizinga, JD. Slow wave contraction frequency plateaus in the small intestine are composed of discrete waves of interval increase associated with dislocations. Exp. Physiol. 2018; :. doi: 10.1113/EP086871. PubMed PMID:29860720 .
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- Huizinga, JD. The powerful advantages of extracellular electrical recording. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017;14 (6):372. doi: 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.16. PubMed PMID:28356577 .
- Huizinga, JD. Commentary: Phase-amplitude coupling at the organism level: The amplitude of spontaneous alpha rhythm fluctuations varies with the phase of the infra-slow gastric basal rhythm. Front Neurosci. 2017;11 :102. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00102. PubMed PMID:28303088 PubMed Central PMC5332408.
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- Wei, R, Parsons, SP, Huizinga, JD. Network properties of interstitial cells of Cajal affect intestinal pacemaker activity and motor patterns, according to a mathematical model of weakly coupled oscillators. Exp. Physiol. 2017;102 (3):329-346. doi: 10.1113/EP086077. PubMed PMID:28036151 .
