The functions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract include digestion, absorption, excretion, and
protection. In this review, we focus on the electrical activity of the stomach and small …

Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by
the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the …

Mathematical and computational modeling of the stomach is an emerging field of
biomechanics where several complex phenomena, such as gastric electrophysiology, fluid …

How does neural activity drive muscles to produce behavior? The recent development of
genetic lines in Hydra that allow complete calcium imaging of both neuronal and muscle …

Gastrointestinal (GI) functional and motility disorders are highly prevalent and responsible
for long-term morbidity and sometimes mortality in the affected patients. It is estimated that …

Background Gastric slow waves propagate aborally as rings of excitation. Circumferential
propagation does not normally occur, except at the pacemaker region. We hypothesized that …

Gastrointestinal (GI) motility is regulated in part by electrophysiological events called slow
waves, which are generated by the interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC). Slow waves propagate by …

Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are responsible for the spontaneous and omnipresent
electrical activity in the stomach. A quantitative description of the intracellular processes …

A key discovery in gastrointestinal motility has been the central role played by interstitial
cells of Cajal (ICC) in generating electrical slow waves that coordinate contractions …

Objective. Neural regulation of gastric motility occurs partly through the regulation of gastric
bioelectrical slow waves (SWs) and phasic contractions. The interaction of the tissues and …