Colon lengthening slows transit: is this the mechanism underlying redundant colon or slow transit constipation?

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prospective laparoscopic assessment of sigmoid elongation: association with constipation and abdominal pain.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026
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2. New Insights into a Conceptual Bionic Colonic Bioreactor: A Model, 'Probiotics in Human Colon', Showing How Probiotics Alleviate Constipation from a Bioprocess Engineering Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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3. Comparing the short-term clinical outcomes and therapeutic effects of different colectomies in patients with refractory slow-transit constipation in eastern countries: a network meta-analysis.Updates in surgery · 2024
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4. Can Infant Dyschezia Be a Suspect of Rectosigmoid Redundancy?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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5. Understanding the physiology of human defaecation and disorders of continence and evacuation.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2021
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6. Irritable bowel syndrome evaluation using computed tomography colonography.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016
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7. Colonic migrating motor complexes, high amplitude propagating contractions, neural reflexes and the importance of neuronal and mucosal serotonin.Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility · 2014
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8. Reply to: 10.1007/s00464-013-3134-x: colonic architectural changes after the use of psychotropic drugs: looking at the egg while forgetting the hen?Surgical endoscopy · 2014
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9. Insights from a novel model of slow-transit constipation generated by partial outlet obstruction in the murine large intestine.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2012
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10. Hyperhomocysteinemia decreases intestinal motility leading to constipation.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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  Colonic elongation inhibits pellet propulsion and migrating motor complexes in the murine large bowel.2010

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