title: IBS: Autonomic dysregulation in IBS.
abstract: Cheng et al. recently reported that patients with IBS have impaired cardiac sympathetic and vagal response to colonic stimulation owing to the procedure of flexible sigmoidoscopy. The importance of this blunted response of the autonomic nervous system in patients with IBS was discussed alongside the basis of visceral perception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioural Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.
authors.forename: Shin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukudo
mesh_terms: D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male