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Human Phys
Gastrointestinal motility
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How are most gastroinestinal reflexes initiated? | - luminal stimuli: distension, osmolarity, acidity and digestion products |
| How do reflexes effect this? | - mediated by short reflexes in enteric nervous system and long reflexes involving afferent and efferent neurons to and from the CNS |
| What purpose does the stomach serve? | - as a reservoir, fragment food, empty gastric contents into duodenum at a controlled rate, vomiting - to remove noxious stimuli |
| What are peristaltic waves? | - smooth muscle contractions are regulated by cycles of membrane depolarisation |
| Distension of the stomach? | - increases force of contraction and rate of gastric emptying |
| Distension of the small intestine? | - fat, acid or hypertonic solutions in the intestinal lumen inhibit gastric contractions |