The ability to assess the complex motor functions of the gastrointestinal tract accurately has
been of tremendous value to understanding and treating digestive diseases. Unlike other …

Abnormal motor patterns are implicated in many motility disorders. However, for many
regions of the gut, our knowledge of normal and abnormal motility behaviors and …

During the past year, attention has focused on several aspects of the physiology and
pathophysiology of small intestinal motility. These include neural, humoral, intraluminal, and …

Alterations in colonic motility are implicated in the pathophysiology of bowel disorders, but
high-resolution manometry of human colonic motor function has revealed that our …

During the last decade, renewed interest in motility of the gastrointestinal tract has been
generated by a greater understanding of enteric neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology …

The physiology and pathophysiology of small bowel motility are reviewed with particular
focus on the motility patterns and periods that are detected by intraluminal manometry …

This contribution to the centennial commemorative issue of the American Journal of
Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology identifies some of the important studies of …

Recent years have witnessed a considerable resurgence of interest in gastrointestinal motor
activity, both in the physiological laboratory and in clinical medicine. Technological …

The human colon absorbs water and electrolytes stores feces until elimination is socially
convenient, and salvages nutrients by bacterial metabolism of nutrients that were not …

The study of the motor function of the small intestine has come a long way from those not-so-
far off days when the fluoroscopic examination of the passage of barium and pressure …