An Introduction to Gastro–Enterology

The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract

Walter C. Alvarez

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781483198880
• Edition: 4
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483223919
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Engineering General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Gastro-Enterology provides information pertinent to the mechanics of the digestive tract. This book reviews the various explanations for the downward progress of intestinal waves. Organized into 34 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the main types of activity in the small bowel. This text then explains the nature of the polarity and the location of the mechanism that produces it. Other chapters consider the duodenal tonus contraction in which the wave seems to originate generally appears a few seconds before a gastric wave reaches the pylorus. This book discusses as well the polarity of the bowel that caused every contraction ring to spread caudad as soon it formed. The final chapter provides a list of books that are likely to be helpful to readers who are starting on their lifework in the fields of gastro-enterology and gastro-intestinal physiology. This book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, physicians, and research workers.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• An Introduction to Gastro-Enterology
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
• PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
• PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• CHAPTER I. THE MOTOR FUNCTIONS OF THE SMALL BOWEL
• CHAPTER II: THE FACULTATIVE AUTONOMY OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
• CHAPTER III. SOME THEORIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADVANCED TO EXPLAIN THE POLARITY OF THE SMALL BOWEL
• CHAPTER IV. THE GRADIENT THEORY OF THE POLARIZATION OF THE BOWEL
• CHAPTER V. A POSSIBLE BASIC METABOLIC GRADIENT
• CHAPTER VI. OTHER RELATED GRADIENTS
• CHAPTER VII. WAYS IN WHICH A GRADIENT MIGHT CONCEIVABLY BE ALTERED OR REVERSED
• CHAPTER VIII. THE SYNDROME OF REVERSE PERISTALSIS
• CHAPTER IX. THE SMOOTH MUSCLE OF THE GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT
• CHAPTER X. THE MUSCULAR VERSUS THE NERVOUS ORIGIN OF THE RHYTHMIC CONTRACTIONS OF THE GUT
• CHAPTER XI. THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE MYENTERIC PLEXUSES
• CHAPTER XII. THE EXTRINSIC NERVES OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
• CHAPTER XIII. CHEWING AND SWALLOWING
• CHAPTER XIV. THE CARDIA
• CHAPTER XV. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH
• CHAPTER XVI. GRADIENTS IN THE MUSCULAR WALL OF THE STOMACH
• CHAPTER XVII. THE PYLORUS AND THE DUODENAL CAP
• CHAPTER XVIII. HUNGER CONTRACTIONS AND THE PAIN OF ULCER
• CHAPTER XIX. MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH THAT IS DISEASED OR HAS BEEN OPERATED ON
• CHAPTER XX. VOMITING
• CHAPTER XXI. THE MECHANICS OF THE GALLBLADDER
• CHAPTER XXII. THE MUSCULARIS MUCOSAE
• CHAPTER XXIII. THE ILEOCECAL SPHINCTER
• CHAPTER XXIV. THE APPENDIX
• CHAPTER XXV. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE COLON
• CHAPTER XXVI. THE LENGTH AND COMPLEXITY OF THE BOWEL AS INFLUENCED BY DIET
• CHAPTER XXVll. THE RATE OF PROGRESS OF FOOD RESIDUES THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
• CHAPTER XXVIII. CONSTIPATION
• CHAPTER XXIX. GAS IN THE BOWEL
• CHAPTER XXX. HUNGER, APPETITE AND THIRST
• CHAPTER XXXI. THE MODUS OPERANDI OF A GASTRO-ENTEROSTOMY
• CHAPTER XXXII. THE ELECTROGASTROGRAM AND ELECTRO-ENTEROGRAM
• CHAPTER XXXlll. TECHNICAL METHODS AND APPARATUS
• CHAPTER XXXIV. ON BOOKS AND READING
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX