A system- and disease-based approach to the aspects of gastrointestinal pathophysiology, essential for an understanding of clinical medicine. Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical medicine, this text provides students with a solid understanding of symptom identification and the underlying disease mechanism. Features clinical pearls, learning objectives, study questions, algorithms, and key concepts highlighting the presentation in each chapter.
Gastrointestinal Physiology, a volume in the Mosby Physiology Series, explains the fundamentals of this complex subject in a clear and concise manner, while helping you bridge the gap between normal function and disease with pathophysiology ...
FROM THE PREFACE: The original purpose of the First Edition of Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract to collect in one set of volumes the most current and comprehensive knowledge in our field was also the driving force for the Fourth ...
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Annotation This is a system- and disease-based approach to the aspects of gastrointestinal pathophysiology, essential for an understanding of clinical medicine.
Particular thanks to our student reviewers James Thorburn, x Aiden Brazil, and Brendan Sheehan for their excellent feedback, and to the Memorial University Medical School Class of 2011 for helping us to decide on which features to ...
Over 35 years ago, we (Neil Granger, James Barrowman, Peter Kvietys) undertook the task of producing a textbook of medical physiology that focused exclusively on the digestive system. The resulting monograph, entitled Clinical ...
In this handbook, the aim is to achieve these various objectives by covering the breadth of gastrointestinal system.
These cell differentiation states, in turn, affect such outcomes as (1) immune cell subset differentiation, ... to autoimmune diseases and (2) epithelial cell behavior, thereby influencing susceptibility to cancer development.
A system- and disease-based approach to the aspects of gastrointestinal pathophysiology, essential for an understanding of clinical medicine. Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical medicine, this text provides...
The book is divided into three parts: 1) Chapters 1-3 include coverage of basic concepts that pertain to all (or most) organs of the digestive system, salivation, chewing, swallowing, and esophageal function, 2) Chapters 4-6 are focused on ...