“On no subject in physiology do we meet with so many discrepancies of fact and opinion as in that of the physiology of the small intestine”.
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Wingate, D.L. Backwards and forwards with the migrating complex. Digest Dis Sci 26, 641–666 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01367678
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