Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Physiology The Essentials

Edited by
John F. Reinus,MD,
Montefiore Medical Center and The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA

Douglas Simon,MD,
Jacobi Medical Center and The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, US

List of Contributors, xxx

Preface, xxx

About the companion website, xxx

1 Structure and Innervation of Hollow Viscera
Laura D. Wood and Elizabeth A. Montgomery

2 Gastrointestinal Hormones in the Regulation of Gut Function in Health and Disease
John Del Valle

3 Gastrointestinal Motility
Ikuo Hirano and Darren Brenner

4 Gastrointestinal immunology and ecology
Shehzad Z. Sheikh and Scott E. Plevy

5 Gastric physiology
Mitchell L. Schubert

6 Structure and Function of the Exocrine Pancreas
James H. Grendell

7 Absorption and secretion of fluid and electrolytes
Lawrence R. Schiller

8 Absorption of nutrients
Lawrence R. Schiller

9 Hepatic Structure and Function
Michelle T. Long and Lawrence S. Friedman

10 The Splanchnic Circulation
Peter R. Kvietys and D. Neil Granger 

11 Composition and Circulation of the Bile
Allan W. Wolkoff

12 Bilirubin metabolism
Allan W. Wolkoff

Index

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