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The occurrence of phase III activity in the upper small intestine is generally associated with a peak in the plasma motilin level (1,2,3). Exogenous motilin, when injected during the relatively refractory state of an MMC cycle, initiates phase III activity prematurely (4,5). These two observations led some investigators to conclude that plasma motilin level cycles spontaneously and when plasma motilin level reaches a peak or a certain threshold, it initiates a phase III activity in the duodenum which then migrates distally.
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Sarna, S., Chey, W., Condon, R., Dodds, W., Myers, T., Chang, T. (1984). Motilin Release and the Migrating Myoelectric Complexes. In: Roman, C. (eds) Gastrointestinal Motility. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9352-1_37
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