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Migrating myoelectrical complexes: disruption, enhancement and disorganization

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Gastrointestinal Motility in Health and Disease

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Migrating myoelectrical complexes (M MC) first identified in the small intestine of the fasted dog as ‘a caudad-moving band of large-amplitude potentials’1 have been recorded in several other species including rats, guinea-pigs, rabbits, pigs, cattle and horses2. They have been also observed to operate in the human duodenum on the basis of mechanica13,4 and electrical recordings5.

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  1. The Royal Infirmary, University Surgical Department, Sheffield, UK

    H. L. Duthie (Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery)

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Bueno, L., Ruckebusch, Y. (1978). Migrating myoelectrical complexes: disruption, enhancement and disorganization. In: Duthie, H.L. (eds) Gastrointestinal Motility in Health and Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4389-1_10

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