Open AccessPhysiology in Perspective: The Body's Tubes Sustain Life but Underlie Disease
Author(s) -
Gary C. Sieck
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.14
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1548-9213
pISSN - 1548-9221
DOI - 10.1152/physiol.00019.2016
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , disease , physiology , biology , medicine , neuroscience , psychology , pathology , computer science , artificial intelligence
Almost 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates stated that “All disease begin in the gut.” Ivan Pavlov, the Russian physiologist and father of modern gastroenterology (GI) research, recognized that “The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the
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