Regulation and Disturbances of Gastrointestinal Function

Preface. 1. Special lecture. Parenteral stress bleeding prophylaxis: Mechanisms of action, efficacy, and side effects (M. Tryba). Chairman's remarks (Y. Kasuya). 2. Motility. Interdigestive migrating complex in health disease in 24-hour recordings (T. Sekiguchi, T. Horikoshi, T. Matsuzaki, M. Kusano). Role of the sphincter of Oddi in regulation of bile flow-sphincter phasic contraction and the duodenal migrating motor complex (K. Ono, H. Suzuki). Contractions mediated by enteric 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT 3 ) receptors in the canine small intestine in vivo (T. Neya, M. Mizutani, S. Nakayama). Chairman's remarks (Y. Matsuo). 3. Blood flow. Constriction of gastric arteries during water immersion stress and its effect on gastric blood flow (K. Itoh et al.). Hemodynamic effect of leukocyte and endothelium interaction on colonic mucosal blood flow in ischemia-reperfusion injury (E. Sekizuka et al.). Chairman's remarks (M. Tsuchiya). 4. Inflammation. Interaction of aggresive and defensive factors in relation to the intracellular pH regulation of the surface epithelial layer of the gastric mucosa (F. Nagano et al.). Helicobacter pylori -associated gastroduodenal disease: immunological aspects (A. Yachi. T. Sugiyama, K. Imai, T. Yabana). Chairman's remarks (Y. Matsuo). 5. Secretion. Histochemical characterization of gastric mucin-secreting cells and the surface mucous gel layer (T. Katsuya et al.). Author index. Subject index.