In most fasting mammals, motility of the foregut and small intestine undergoes regular cycles
of activity. Much of the expanding knowledge of this phenomenon comes from species other …

Motor patterns of the distal small bowel were defined in healthy humans, using a multilumen
polyvinyl tube, passed by mouth in 11 healthy subjects. Five recording sites, spanning 100 …

The main functions of gastric motility are to accommodate and store the ingested meal, grind
down or triturate solid particles, and then empty the meal in a regulated fashion into the …

In order to characterise human interdigestive cyclical motor activity, and its interruption by
food, jejunal pressure changes in healthy volunteers were recorded continuously for 24 …

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 …

An increased awareness of intestinal distention or contraction is implicated in the
pathogenesis of the irritable bowel syndrome. This study aimed to test this hypothesis in 20 …

Continuous 72-h recordings of duodenojejunal contractile activity were obtained from 20
freely ambulant subjects; pressure was detected by two straingauge sensors incorporated in …

As relatively little is known of human colonic motor activity either in health, or in pathological
conditions, we investigated mass movements in 14 chronically constipated patients and 18 …

Intraluminal pressures were measured in the gastric antrum and at different levels of the
upper small intestine in 18 normal subjects to investigate whether or not the interdigestive …

The effects of rectal distension on upper gastrointestinal motility were investigated in six
healthy subjects. On a control day, gastric and duodenal motor activity was recorded for nine …