School of Dentistry - Year 1 BDS Curriculum

Plenary: "An Overview of Digestion"

1. the function of the main regions of the gastrointestinal tract and associated secretory organs
2. the cellular origin, composition and function of gastric juice
3. the cellular mechanisms and regulation of gastric acid secretion
4. how we can control excess acid secretion
5. the role of the Helicobacter pylori in inflammation, ulceration and cancer of the stomach.

Useful links

• The autonomic nervous system
   
  
• Digestive system
   
  
• Digesting your diet
   
  
• Physiology of Acid secretion & Drugs used in acid suppression
   
  
• Proton pump inhibitors
   
  
• H.pylori
   
  
• Nobel prize for medicine 2005 - H. pylori. Contents include….discovery, mechanisms of infection and inflammation.