Stress and gastrointestinal (GI) motility

Pathophysiology of Neurogastroenterological Disorders: GI Motility and Sensory Disorders ORGANIZATION OF THE CONTROL OF GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY

Gastrointestinal (GI) Disorders in Pregnancy

یکی از شکایات شایع دوران حاملگی، اختلالات معده ای روده ای (GI) است. اطلاع از میزان بروز و چگونگی اختلالات معده ای روده ای، نوع مراقبت از بیماران حامله را تعیین خواهد کرد. در این مقاله تغییرات فیزیولوژیک، بیماریهای عفونی، بیماریهای اتوایمون و تشکیل زخم در سیستم گوارشی دوران بارداری مورد بحث قرار گرفته است. هم چنین در مورد درمان و اثرات آنها روی جنین و نیز اثر حاملگی روی انواع اختلالات معدی روده...

GI Motility Disorders in Elderly

With increasing age, there is functional impairment of the gastrointestinal tract which is also aggravated by the various co-morbidities and adverse effect of many medications 1. On the whole, there is reduced or impaired co-ordination of contraction of the muscular wall of the various parts of the gastrointestinal tract, leading to various types of mobility problems 2. The dramatic increase in...

GI Motility: Microbiota and Macrophages Join Forces

Gastrointestinal motility causes movement of food during digestion through contractions of the gut smooth muscle. The enteric nervous system regulates these events, and Muller et al. now find that its interaction with the immune system, in concert with gut microbiota, provides an additional layer of regulation to this complex task.

Gastrointestinal Motility

Anatomic regions of the stomach are the fundus, corpus (body), antrum and pylorus. The functional regions of the stomach do not correspond to the anatomic regions. Functionally, the stomach can be divided into the gastric reservoir and the gastric pump (Fig. 1). The gastric reservoir consists of the fundus and corpus. The gastric pump is represented by the area at which peristaltic waves occur:...