The intestine comprises a long hollow muscular tube organized in anatomically and
functionally discrete compartments, which digest and absorb nutrients and water from …

Background Chronic nausea in adolescents with functional gastrointestinal disorders is an
increasingly reported but poorly understood symptom that negatively affects quality of life …

Background Gastroparesis is characterized by delayed gastric emptying without mechanical
obstruction, but remains difficult to diagnose and distinguish from other gastrointestinal (GI) …

Assessing gastrointestinal motility lacks simultaneous evaluation of intraluminal pressure
(ILP), circular muscle (CM) and longitudinal muscle (LM) contraction, and lumen emptying …

Chronic nausea is a widespread functional disease in children with numerous comorbidities.
High-resolution electrogastrogram (HR-EGG) has shown sufficient sensitivity as a …

Paralytic ileus is a temporary syndrome with impairment of peristalsis and no passage of
food through the intestine. Although improvements in supportive measures have been …

Human absorption studies are used to test new drug candidates for their bioavailability in
different regions of the gastrointestinal tract. In order to replace invasive techniques (eg oral …

Gastric motility is coordinated by bioelectric slow waves (SWs) and dysrhythmic SW activity
has been linked with motility disorders. Magnetogastrography (MGG) is the non-invasive …

Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is a challenging clinical problem that is difficult to
diagnose noninvasively. Diagnosis early in the disease process would enable life-saving …

Objective: The propagation of electrophysiological activity measured by multichannel
devices could have significant clinical implications. Gastric slow waves normally propagate …