The study demonstrates that excitatory agents increase potassium efflux and smooth muscle tone in guinea pig ileum, and that cocaine impedes ion fluxes important for contraction.
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Hypothesis-generating for ion-dependent smooth muscle excitability; leaves open translation to human GI therapeutics.
Weiss et al. (1961) studied this question.
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