GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY

Gastrointestinal Motility

Infection of the Gastrointestinal Tract Motility

Describe the Neural Mechanisms Involved In the Increase in Gi Motility That Produces the Diarrhea

Gastrointestinal Motility

It refers to the gastrointestinal tract where the smooth muscles are contracted. The gastrointestinal tract has five phases, which are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine colon. There are special muscles, which tend to separates each of the phase, these special muscles are called as sphincters, which are enclosed and help in the regulation of movement of the food residues.

The gastrointestinal tract performs function that helps in digestion which results in diverse type of motility. However, it is possible that motility may perhaps not appropriate for some of its function in the system of digestion. Thus, it causes some symptoms those are in the form of vomiting, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea (Philips, 1995). The term that defines the muscle contraction that usually mixes the food residues in the gastrointestinal tract that is called as Motility.

Neural Mechanism

Food is swallowed in the mouth, then the bolus push the food with the help of the tongue towards the lower part of the mouth and eventually it enters the Pharynx and further it carries to the Esophagus where the food is processed in 8 seconds and moves to the stomach where the food is mixed with certain digestive enzymes and the food residues further grinds the food into a fluid form, and move the food to the next phase that is the small intestine where specific nutrients are absorbed from the food into the blood, and the colon reabsorbs the water and reduces the indigested food that is left in the intestine.

The eaten food move from approximately 30 feet into the digestive system that starts from the esophagus, in lined with the stomach to the small and large ...