title: A review of electrical stimulation to treat motility dysfunctions in the digestive tract: effects and stimulation patterns.
abstract: Electrical stimulation of the digestive organs may become a valuable alternative to pharmaceutical and surgical approaches to the treatment of gastrointestinal motor dysfunctions. For more than 40 years, encouraging results with electrical stimulation to activate motility in gastrointestinal organs have been published. The most significant achievements with this work have been either stimulation to attenuate the symptoms of gastroparesis or stimulation to modify the feeding behavior in obese patients. In addition, animal studies have investigated the different stimulation systems and methods to activate or inhibit transit in the small and large intestines. This article presents a review of the published literature on electrical stimulation of the stomach and intestines.
authors.affiliation: Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark; and              Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sevcencu