Gastrointestinal Motility

Section 1 Oesophagus, Lower Oesophageal Sphincter.- 1 Effects of the vagal deafferentation on oesophageal motility in the conscious sheep.- 2 Electrophysiological and pharmacological characterization of the NANC nerve mediated inhibition of the circular muscle layer of the opossum esophagus.- 3 The edrophonium response : use in diagnosis and possible understanding of mechanisms of esophageal chest pain.- 4 The diabetic esophagus — revisited.- 5 Abnormalities of esophageal motor function in diabetic patients.- 6 In vitro study of the effects of Leu-enkephalin and related drugs on the vagally induced responses of the cat lower esophageal sphincter.- 7 Relation between lower esophageal sphincter pressure and plasma concentration of neurotensin(1–13) during intravenous infusion of neurotensin (1–13) and (Gln4-neurotensin(1–13) in man.- 8 d-Pro2, d-Trp7,9 substance P: an effective antagonist of exogenous and endogenous substance P.- 9 Relationship of functional changes to structural changes in megaesophagus of Chagas’ disease.- 10 Developmental characteristics of the kitten lower esophageal sphincter.- 11 Variability of pressure and myoelectrical activity recorded from the lower esophageal sphincter of fasted conscious opossums.- 12 Reflux characteristics in health and disease.- Section 2 Gastric Motility and Emptying.- 13 Effect of dopamine or dopamine blocker on the antral motility in isolated perfused rat stomach.- 14 Dual effect of substance P on canine antral muscle.- 15 Regulation of gastric antral slow wave frequency by prostaglandins.- 16 Mechanical activity of isolated human pyloric muscle, in comparison with canine pylorus.- 17 Stimulating effects of cisapride on antroduodenal motility in the conscious dog.- 18 Changes in the innervation of the fundus after subtotal gastrectomy.- 19 Studies on the process of gastric emptying.- 20 The timing of pyloric closure in man: studies with impedence electrodes.- 21 Effect of nervous stimulation on pyloric resistance and configuration.- 22 Small intestinal regulation of gastric emptying.- 23 Vagal osmosensitive receptors located in the small intestine. Role in gastric emptying.- 24 Gastric emptying in asymptomatic partial gastrectomy (B-II) patients.- 25 Effects of bombesin on gastric emptying of solids in normal and antrectomized subjects: evidence for an action at the distal stomach.- 26 Involvement of endogenous opiates in radiation-induced suppression of gastric emptying.- 27 Gastrointestinal contractile activity associated with vomiting in the dog.- 28 Vagal control of gastrointestinal tract during vomiting.- Section 3 Biliary Tract.- 29 Enkephalins mediate cholecystokinin-induced gallbladder contraction in the guinea pig.- 30 Intramural innervation of the opossum sphincter of Oddi.- 31 The relationship between gastrointestinal cyclic motor activity and gallbladder emptying in humans.- 32 Defective gallbladder contractility associated with increased bile lithogenicity in ground squirrels and prairie dogs.- 33 Prostaglandins modulate human gallbladder motility.- 34 Fasting canine biliary secretion and the sphincter of Oddi.- 35 Stomach motility modulates bile flow in the pig.- Section 4 Small Intestine and Migrating Myoelectric Complexes.- 36 Effects of peptide YY and porcine pancreatic polypeptide on migrating myoelectric complexes in the rat small intestine.- 37 Motilin release and the migrating myoelectric complexes.- 38 Motilin and myoelectric complexes in the pig.- 39 Somatostatin induces ectopic activity fronts of the migrating motor complexes via a local intestinal mechanism.- 40 Morphine initiated migrating myoelectric complexes in postprandial state in dog: changes in refractoriness of MMC mechanism.- 41 The effect of morphine on motility, flow and transit in the human ileocolonic junctional region.- 42 Blockade of migrating myoelectric complexes by naloxone.- 43 Effect of intraduodenal bile on myoelectric activity of the upper gastrointestinal tract and sphincter of Oddi.- 44 Nocturnal motor activity of the upper gastrointestinal tract, and plasma levels of entero-pancreatic hormones and primary bile acids in man.- 45 The development of fasting small intestinal motility in the human neonate.- 46 Feeding behaviour and the migrating myoelectric complex.- 47 Does exercise affect the migrating motor complex in man?.- 48 Sham feeding amplifies the secretory component of interdigestive activity.- 49 Jejunal motility in dystrophia myotonica: a manometric study of migrating motor complex.- 50 Modification of the interdigestive migrating motor complex in patients with partial gastrectomy and gastrojejunostomy.- 51 Disorganisation of the interdigestive small bowel motility by E. coli endotoxin in the rat.- 52 Abnormal gastrointestinal motility in diabetics and after vagotomy.- 53 Stimulation of action potential complexes by fluid distension of rabbit small intestine — evidence that migrating action potential complexes are a non-specific myoelectric response.- 54 Electrical activity of an intrinsically denervated jejunum of the unanesthetized rat.- 55 Evidence for a muscarinic inhibitory brake activated by peptides in the canine small intestine.- 56 The ileal brake: a potent mechanism for feedback control of gastric emptying and small bowel transit.- 57 Comparison of neurotensin and fat On myoelectric activity of the small bowel.- 58 Modulation of rat small bowel motor activity by food and peptides.- 59 Dose-dependent effects of ceruletide on jejuna) motor activity and on experimentally induced pain in healthy humans.- 60 Indomethacin-induced spiking activity in rabbit ileum: in vivo interactions of prostaglandins and cholinergic neurotransmission.- 61 Electrical activity of cat intestine following defunctionalization.- 62 Vagal and splanchnic influences on small intestinal motility in the anaesthetized ferret.- Section 5 Lower Digestive Tract.- 63 Relationship between contractile and intracellular electrical activities in canine colon muscle layers.- 64 Modulation of pacemaker activity in circular muscle of the canine colon.- 65 Longitudinal and circular muscle of canine colon have different and characteristic electrical and mechanical activities.- 66 The relationship between extracellular and intracellular slow waves.- 67 The electrical basis for the inhibitory response of the guinea pig internal anal sphincter to nerve stimulation and drugs.- 68 Effects of salicylic acid (SA) and aspirin (ASA) on met-enkephalin (FK) and acetylcholine (ACH) stimulated motility of the isolated rat colon.- 69 Effect of leu-enkephalin on synaptic transmission in the inferior mesenteric ganglion.- 70 Effects of trimebutine (TMB) on spontaneous electrical activity and on junction potentials evoked by parasympathetic nerve stimulation in cat and rabbit colon.- 71 Food increases the propagating myoelectric spiking activity in the human colon.- 72 Effects of the pancreatic polypeptide, NPY and PYY in relation to sympathetic influence on colonic motility and blood flow.- 73 Ultrasound used to measure the response of colonic motility to essential oils.- 74 Nervous reflexes involved in the co-ordination of the motility of internal anal sphincter and urinary bladder.- 75 Relaxations of the internal anal sphincter elicited by rectal and extrarectal distensions in man.- 76 Rectal function in patients with idiopathic chronic constipation.- 77 Severe, idiopathic constipation is caused by a distinct abnormality of the colonic myenteric plexus.- 78 Physiological study of the lower digestive tract in primary constipation.- 79 Intestinal transit time is related with different anorectal motility patterns in chronic non-organic constipation.- 80 Is incontinence in diabetes mellitus due to diabetic autonomous neuropathy?.- Section 6 Smooth Muscle, Nervous and Hormonal Control.- 81 Correlation between the electrical properties and morphological characteristics in the smooth muscle cells during culture.- 82 Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC): selective uptake of methylene blue inhibits slow wave activity.- 83 The mechanism of action of pentagastrin on circular muscle from canine gastric corpus.- 84 Role of bombesin in muscularis mucosa of canine colon.- 85 Effect of substance P on non-cholinergic post-stimulus depolarization of the circular smooth muscle of the guinea pig ileum.- 86 Gastrointestinal motility stimulating properties of cisapride, a non-antidopaminergic non-cholinergic compound.- 87 Characterization of 125I-Trp11-neurotensin binding to rat fundus smooth muscle plasma membranes.- 88 Facilitation and inhibition by 5-hydroxytryptamine and R 51 619 of acetylcholine release from guinea pig myenteric neurons.- 89 The interaction of adenosine with isolated myenteric nerve varicosities.- 90 Effect of peptide YY on contractile activity in the stomach of Heidenhain pouch dogs.- 91 Alterations of digestive motility by Escherichia coli endotoxin in rabbits mediated through central opiate receptors.- 92 Central effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone on gastrointestinal motility in fasted and fed rats.- 93 The brain-gut axis: a physiological model.- 94 Spinal, supraspinal and peripheral sites of opioid intestinal actions.- 95 Centrally-administered bombesin delays small intestinal transit but stimulates motility in the rat.- 96 Effects of hindbrain l-glutamic acid application on gastrointestinal motor function in the cat.- LECTURE: Gastrointestinal hormones and intestinal motility.