School of Medicine - Year 1 MBChB Curriculum

GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM LECTURE BLOCK        Professor Barry Campbell

Lecture 6: "I've got that gut feeling - motility in the GI tract"


Objective: - To develop an understanding of:
  1. control of swallowing and the lower oesophageal sphincter.
  2. motility patterns in fasted and fed states
  3. motility patterns in the small and large intestine (segmentation, peristalsis, mass movements).
  4. how we remove indigestible matter (defecation and external anal sphincter control)
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