Second International Cascade Symposium on the Avian Digestive System; July 20-25, 1997, Duluth, Minnesota

请拨资金部分用于支持第二届禽类消化系统问题国际级联专题讨论会。这次研讨会是1988年夏天举行的一次非常成功的研讨会的后续行动。计划中的研讨会的主题是鸟类消化系统的基本生理学，这一领域自20世纪80年代中期以来一直没有总结过。正如作为动物学杂志副刊发表的1988年研讨会的会议记录一样，将尽一切努力发表第二次研讨会的会议记录。通过精心挑选演讲者，研讨会将涵盖禽类GI系统的几乎所有方面。研讨会将首先讨论食物摄入的调节，然后依次讨论胃功能、小肠功能、消化盲肠功能、直肠和泄殖腔功能、胃肠系统与饮食的变化，以及肾脏和下消化道在维持液体和电解质平衡中的协调作用。31位发言者应邀参加了这次研讨会，其中11位来自外国。除了口头报告外，学生和其他人还将有机会在会议期间以海报形式展示数据。

Funds are requested to support, in part, the Second International Cascade Symposium on the Avian Digestive System. This symposium is a follow up to a very successful symposium that was held in the summer of 1988. The topic of the planned symposium is the basic physiology of the avian digestive system, an area that has not been summarized since the mid-1980s. As with the proceedings of the 1988 symposium that were published as a supplement to the Journal of Zoology, every attempt will be made to have the proceeding of the second symposium published. Through a careful selection of speakers, almost all aspects of the avian GI system will be covered in the symposium. The symposium will start with a consideration of the regulation of food intake, and this will be followed in sequence by discussions of gastric function, small intestine function, function of the digestive ceca, rectal and cloacal function, changes of the GI system with diet, and the coordinated function of the kidney and lower GI track in the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance. Thirty-one speakers have been invited to participate in the symposium, eleven of which are from foreign countries. In addition to the oral presentations, students and others will be offered the opportunity to present data as posters during the conference.