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Ii) Proof that the motor programs reside within the ENS is provided by evidence that the motor programs are damaged or absent in diseases in which the ENS is damaged. This fact allows diagnosticians to use manometric recordings of small bowel motor activity to test the integrity of the ENS in suspected motor disorders of the gut. December 10, 2008 16:26 9 in x 6 in B-679 b679-ch01 Overview of Enteric Neurobiology 17 iii) As stated above, when the bowel is transacted and rejoined, there is a permanent change in slow wave frequency above and below the site of section.

The elucidation of gut function only became possible when advances in technology enabled dynamic imaging of the gut and sampling of its content. The gut is a specialized region of the body surface that, being an invaginated tube through the body, is protected from the external environment. Unlike the skin, the surface of the gut is permeable, allowing nutrients and water to be absorbed to provide energy substrates to the organism, and to maintain fluid balance. In terrestrial species, for whom food and water are only intermittently available, the gut tube is also a storage device that allows the absorption of solutes and fluid over a much longer period of time than 1 December 10, 2008 2 16:26 9 in x 6 in B-679 b679-ch01 Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Enteric Neurobiology the relatively brief periods available for the ingestion of food and water.

Their most prominent function is to support pacemaker activity and Ca2+ entry at negative membrane potentials. N-type show a greater tendency to inactivate with depolarized holding potentials, although their rate of inactivation December 10, 2008 22 16:26 9 in x 6 in B-679 b679-ch02 Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Enteric Neurobiology is quite variable. It has been strongly argued that they are important in the mediation of neurotransmitter release. P-type are high-voltage activated Ca2+ channels and demonstrate slow inactivation.

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