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

请拨资金部分支持第二届国际禽消化系统级联专题讨论会。这次专题讨论会是1988年夏天举行的一次非常成功的专题讨论会的后续活动。计划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1980年代中期以来一直没有得到总结。正如1988年专题讨论会的论文集作为《动物学杂志》的增刊出版一样，我们将尽一切努力出版第二次专题讨论会的论文集。经过精心挑选的演讲者，研讨会将涵盖鸟类地理标志系统的几乎所有方面。研讨会将从食物摄入的调节开始，然后依次讨论胃功能、小肠功能、消化盲肠功能、直肠和阴囊功能、胃肠道系统随饮食的变化，以及肾脏和下消化道在维持体液和电解质平衡中的协调功能。31位发言人应邀参加了研讨会，其中11位来自外国。除了口头报告，学生和其他人将有机会在会议期间以海报的形式展示数据。

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.