This textbook covers all the important aspects of the normal function of the digestive tract. It includes all essential information necessary for the understanding of malfunction and alterations caused by disease and also provides a background to the study of the abnormal functions encountered clinically. The tremendous progress in the fields of neural control mechanisms, specific transport processes, bile secretion and the properties of the bile duct, and the intestinal circulation have been incorporated. This book is designed to be of interest to preclinical medical and dental students, applied biology and zoology undergraduates and gastroenterologists.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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102 line drawings, further reading list, 8 half-tones, index
ISBN-13
978-0-340-56020-4 (9780340560204)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Food intake and its control; the mouth and the oesophagus; the stomach; liver and secretions of pancreas and duodenum; the small intestine; the large instestine.
