Digestive System
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2010
260 pages
978-1-61530-252-9 (ISBN)
Description
The satisfaction derived from savoring a steak or indulging in an ice cream sundae is only one aspect of a larger process that occurs in the human digestive system. From the moment food enters our mouths until long after we have finished a meal, the body
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 THE BEGINNING OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
- MOUTH AND ORAL STRUCTURES
- THE LIPS AND CHEEKS
- THE MOUTH
- THE GUMS
- THE TEETH
- THE TONGUE
- THE SALIVARY GLANDS
- SALIVA
- CHAPTER 2 THE PASSAGE OF FOOD TO THE STOMACH
- SWALLOWING
- THE PHARYNX
- THE ESOPHAGUS
- THE STOMACH
- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE STOMACH
- STOMACH CONTRACTIONS
- GASTRIC MUCOSA
- GASTRIC SECRETION
- GASTRIC ABSORPTION AND EMPTYING
- CHAPTER 3 ANATOMY OF THE LOWER DIGESTIVE TRACT
- THE SMALL INTESTINE
- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE SMALL INTESTINE
- CONTRACTIONS AND MOTILITY OF THE SMALL INTESTINE
- ABSORPTION IN THE SMALL INTESTINE
- SECRETIONS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE
- THE LARGE INTESTINE
- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
- CONTRACTIONS AND MOTILITY OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
- THE APPENDIX
- THE RECTUM
- THE ANAL CANAL
- CHAPTER 4 DIGESTIVE GLANDS AND HORMONES
- THE LIVER
- THE BILIARY TRACT
- THE GALLBLADDER
- BILE
- THE PANCREAS
- ACINAR CELLS
- ISLETS OF LANGERHANS
- HORMONES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
- INSULIN
- GLUCAGON
- INTESTINAL GLUCAGON
- SOMATOSTATIN
- SEROTONIN
- CHOLECYSTOKININ
- GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE
- PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE
- SECRETIN
- VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE
- ENDORPHINS AND ENKEPHALINS
- PROSTAGLANDINS
- OTHER HORMONES OF IMPORTANCE
- CHAPTER 5 FEATURES OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
- ROLE OF DIGESTION
- UTILIZATION OF FOOD BY THE BODY
- NUTRIENT DIGESTION
- CARBOHYDRATES
- DIETARY FIBRE
- PROTEINS
- FATS
- VITAMINS
- CALCIUM
- MAGNESIUM
- IRON
- MOVEMENT OF GAS THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
- THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AS AN ORGAN OF IMMUNITY
- CHAPTER 6 DISEASES OF THE UPPER DIGESTIVE TRACT
- DISEASES OF THE MOUTH AND ORAL CAVITY
- PELLAGRA
- GLOSSITIS
- VINCENT GINGIVITIS
- ORAL CANCER
- DENTAL CARIES
- PHARYNGITIS
- CONGENITAL DEFECTS
- DISEASES OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS
- DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS
- CONGENITAL DEFECTS
- INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS
- STRICTURES
- DYSPHAGIA
- ESOPHAGEAL PAIN
- DISORDERS OF ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY
- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- DIVERTICULA OF THE ESOPHAGUS
- ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
- DISEASES OF THE STOMACH
- INDIGESTION
- ULCERATIVE DISEASES
- GASTRITIS
- STOMACH CANCER
- CHAPTER 7 DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES
- DISEASES OF THE SMALL INTESTINE
- TRAVELER'S DIARRHEA
- INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
- IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
- MALABSORPTION
- CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS
- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
- PARASITIC INFECTIONS
- APPENDICITIS
- CHRONIC INFLAMMATIONS
- CELIAC DISEASE
- TROPICAL SPRUE
- DISEASES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
- CONSTIPATION
- MEGACOLON
- DIARRHEA
- INTESTINAL GAS
- DIVERTICULA OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
- ABSCESSES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF THE COLON
- INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- COLORECTAL CANCER
- HEMORRHOIDS
- CHAPTER 8 DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND PANCREAS
- DISEASES OF THE LIVER
- ACUTE HEPATOCELLULAR HEPATITIS
- ACUTE CANALICULAR (CHOLESTATIC) HEPATITIS
- CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS
- CIRRHOSIS
- HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
- PORTAL HYPERTENSION
- ASCITES
- HEPATORENAL SYNDROME
- LIVER CANCER
- DISEASES OF THE BILIARY TRACT
- GALLSTONES
- OTHER BILIARY TRACT DISORDERS
- JAUNDICE
- DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS
- PANCREATITIS
- CHRONIC PANCREATITIS
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS
- PANCREATIC CANCER
- CONCLUSION
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
