Gastrointestinal Motility in Health and Disease: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 12–16th September, 1977

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Studies on the interdigestive (migrating) motor complex in man....Pages 3-8
Migrating myoelectrical complexes in man....Pages 9-17
The interdigestive myoelectrical complex and other migrating electrical phenomena in the human small intestine....Pages 19-28
Effect of feeding and of gastrin on the interdigestive myoelectrical complex in man ( Abstract )....Pages 29-31
Postoperative gastrointestinal complexes....Pages 33-42
The effect of different test meals on the interdigestive myoelectrical complex (MMC) in dogs ( Abstract )....Pages 43-46
The effects of exogenous cholecystokinin and pentagastrin on myoelectrical activity in the small intestine of the conscious fasted dog....Pages 47-60
Longitudinal contractions in the jejunum of fasting dogs....Pages 61-71
Laxative effects on small intestinal electrical activity of the conscious dog....Pages 73-82
Migrating myoelectrical complexes: disruption, enhancement and disorganization....Pages 83-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Treatment of diverticular disease with hydrophilic colloids....Pages 95-99
Control of motor activity in the lower oesophageal sphincter by motilin....Pages 101-111
The role of the cholinergic nervous system in the gastrointestinal response to motilin in vivo ....Pages 113-124
VIP antagonizes motilin-induced antral contractions in vitro ....Pages 125-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Release of [ 3 H]noradrenaline by electrical stimulation of human isolated taenia coli....Pages 137-143
2-2′-Pyridylisatogen antagonizes adenosine 5′-triphosphate but not nerve-mediated relaxations in human isolated taenia coli....Pages 145-150
Stimulatory actions of adenosine triphosphate in dog intestine....Pages 151-159
Effect of dopamine on gastric motility in man: evidence for specific receptors....Pages 161-172
Is dopamine an endogenous inhibitor of gastric emptying?....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Low residue diet affects motility of the duodenum as well as the colon....Pages 185-194
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Effects of 16,16 dimethyl prostaglandine E 2 on the integrated response to a meal....Pages 195-204
Influence of nutritive density of a meal on gastric emptying in duodenal ulcer patients....Pages 205-213
The effect of vagotomy on gastric emptying of solid and liquid components of a meal....Pages 215-224
The effect of bran on colonic myoelectrical function in diverticular disease....Pages 225-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Methods of analysing rhythmic electrical potentials in the gastrointestinal tract....Pages 235-249
Frequency analysis of electrical activity in dog colon....Pages 251-269
Gastroduodenal coordination: a computer analysis (Abstract) ....Pages 271-274
Computer analysis of electrical and mechanical activity of stomach, duodenum and caecum over long periods....Pages 275-285
Real time analysis of colonic myoelectrical rhythms in disease....Pages 287-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Specific impedance of longitudinal and circular muscle from cat proximal jejunum....Pages 299-305
Colonic mechanoreceptor input to neurons in the coeliac plexus and superior mesenteric ganglion ( Abstract )....Pages 307-310
Electrical activity of myenteric neurons: comparison of results obtained with intracellular and extracellular methods of recording....Pages 311-321
The genesis of the myoelectrical activity in the circular muscle layer from the cat colon: a pharmacological analysis ( Abstract )....Pages 323-325
 In vitro studies of the electrical activity of the longitudinal and circular muscle layers of the human colon....Pages 327-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Human lower oesophageal sphincter (LES) response to submaximal and maximal effective doses of synthetic human big gastrin (G-34) and gastrin I (G-17) (Abstract) ....Pages 337-340
The effects of thyrocalcitonin on pentagastrin-induced contraction of the lower oesophageal sphincter in normals and in patients with achalasia (Abstract) ....Pages 341-343
Comparison of the biological activity of pentagastrin, G-17 and G-34 on canine antral motility and intracellular electrical activity (Abstract) ....Pages 345-348
Direct measurement of pyloric diameter and tone in man and their response to cholecystokinin....Pages 349-359
The relationship between gastric inhibitory peptide and right colon electromechanical activity after feeding (Abstract) ....Pages 361-364
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Colonic motility....Pages 367-377
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Cellular ion concentrations and electrical control activity in various regions of the colon....Pages 379-385
Electrophysiological control of motility in canine colon....Pages 387-398
Nycthemeral variation of ileocolic myoelectrical activity in the cat....Pages 399-405
The identification of an electrically silent zone at the ileocaecocolic junction ( Abstract )....Pages 407-409
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
Idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndromes — a clinicopathological study of six adults ( Abstract )....Pages 413-416
Activity of derivatives of tyrosine on gastrointestinal motility....Pages 417-427
Sources of inaccuracy in measurement of sphincter pressures using perfused catheters....Pages 429-440
Food sensitivity in reflux oesophagitis....Pages 441-447
Motor response of the human oesophagus to different intraluminal pHs....Pages 449-455
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
The role of the antral pacesetter potential in canine gastric emptying of solids....Pages 459-469
Myoelectrical activity and histology at duodenal anastomoses....Pages 471-480
Characterization of the feline pyloric sphincter by neural and hormonal stimulation (Abstract)....Pages 481-483
The pressure relationship in the gastric body, antrum and duodenum during gastric (abomasal) emptying in the calf....Pages 485-493
Transformation of the slow potential rhythm of the fundus of the stomach after functional loading following Billroth I gastrectomy....Pages 495-502
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Vagal control of lower oesophageal sphincter function....Pages 505-512
The cat oesophagus: responses of the circular layer of smooth muscle from the body to electrical field stimulation....Pages 513-523
Mechanism of tetrodotoxin-insensitive relaxation of opossum lower oesophageal sphincter....Pages 525-535
Analysis of the electrical activity of the canine gastro-oesophageal sphincter in terms of overlapping pulse sequences (Abstract)....Pages 537-539
The myogenic control of oesophageal peristalsis and Les relaxation and interaction between myogenic and neural control systems (Abstract) ....Pages 541-543
Front Matter....Pages 545-545
Comparison of mechanical characteristics of the lower oesophageal sphincter and pyloric sphincter (Abstract) ....Pages 547-551
Front Matter....Pages 545-545
The role of the duodenum in the regulation of lower oesophageal sphincter pressure (LESP) in the dog....Pages 553-563
Clinical and experimental studies on the effect of nifedipine on smooth muscle of the oesophagus and LES....Pages 565-574
The upper oesophageal sphincter during vomiting, eructation and distension of the cardia : an electromyographic study in the unanaesthetized dog....Pages 575-583
Somatostatin inhibition of LESP elevation caused by glycine : support for a role of endogenous gastrin in physiological responses of the sphincter....Pages 585-589
Front Matter....Pages 591-591
Sphincter of Oddi motor activity in man : a zone of unique, phasic high-pressure contractions ( Abstract )....Pages 593-594
Antagonism by metoclopramide of some gastrointestinal effects of secretin....Pages 595-605
Effects of bile salts and prostaglandins on colonic motility in the rabbit....Pages 607-617
Evidence suggesting prostaglandins mediate lower oesophageal sphincter incompetence associated with inflammation....Pages 619-624
Hydrogen ions inhibit jejunal flow....Pages 625-633
Front Matter....Pages 635-635
Gastroduodenal contractile activity in fed and fasted unrestrained rats....Pages 637-645
Calibration of strain gauge force transducers and quantification of gastric motility....Pages 647-654
Pressure and motility studies in clinical practice....Pages 655-657
Relaxation oscillators....Pages 659-668
Human colonic modelling and multiple solutions in non-linear oscillators....Pages 669-675
Back Matter....Pages 677-684