SYMPOSIUM ON COLONIC FUNCTION - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF COLON
SYMPOSIUM ON COLONIC FUNCTION - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF COLON
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DOI:
10.1136/gut.16.4.298
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
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影响因子:
24.5
通讯作者:
DANIEL, EE
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作者:
DANIEL, EE
One approach to an analysis of the electrophysiology of smooth muscle and nerves of the large bowel is to examine small bits of them as examples of smooth muscle tissues, without any consideration of the functions of the whole organ. Another approach, more relevant to clinical problems, involves analysis of how the components of the organ are controlled and integrated to form a functional unit. The large bowel transfers the semiliquid contents it receives from the ileum to the rectum in such a way as to allow for extraction of electrolytes and water and for other changes in composition en route. Since evacuation of contents from the rectum is usually a periodic phenomenon, and input by evacuation from the ileum is probably also periodic, there must be coupling in some way between input and output; and there must also be a system of controls to provide for orderly delays and movements of the colonic contents during transit. To understand the control system for transit in the large bowel, a systematic approach seems warranted. I believe one should begin with an analysis of the range of responses which its muscle components can execute (Daniel, 1973). This requires consideration of the origin and integration of spontaneous electrical and mechanical activity of the musculature of the large bowel during normal and abnormal motor activity. A question soon arises: Which responses are initiated and integrated by the smooth muscle alone? Answering this question leads to characterization of the properties of the myogenic control system. If complete, this characterization would provide information about the cellular electrical activities, cell-to-cell coupling in muscle layers and coupling between layers, and the translation of these activities into mechanical responses. A number of gastrointestinal myogenic control systems, particularly of stomach and small bowel (see Daniel, 1973; Sarna, Daniel, and Kingma, 1971, 1972a, b, and c), have been characterized as myogenic systems of mutually coupled relaxation