Abbreviations

From the following article

André Jean and Michel Dallaporta

GI Motility online (2006)

doi:10.1038/gimo9

central pattern generator

X dorsal motor nucleus

dorsal swallowing group

gamma -aminobutyric acid

outward potassium current

low-threshold activated calcium currents

N-methyl-D-aspartate

nucleus tractus solitarii

superior laryngeal nerve

swallowing pattern generator

ventral swallowing group