Abstracts for the 6th European Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility 19–21 NOVEMBER 1992 HOTEL MELIA BARCELONA, BARCELONA, SPAIN

MOTOR RESPONSES OF HUMAN ILEUM TO TACHYKININS IN VITRO: EXISTENCE OF NK2 RECEPTORS AND RECEPTORS SPECIFIC FOR NEUROPEPTIDE GAMMA. INNERVATION OF THE MUSCULARIS MUCOSAE OF HUMAN COLON. LONG TERM MANOMETRY OF TUBULAR ESOPHAGUS: A NEW TECHNIQUE TO DETECT MOTILITY DISORDERS ‐ A STUDY OF 30 HEALTHY SUBJECTS THE ROLE OF CHRONIC STRESS ON GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT IN THE RAT. CHANGES IN THE ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE GASTRIC REMNANT AFTER BILLROTH II GASTRECTOMY IN DOGS CISAPRIDE (C) AND ERYTHROMYCIN (Em) EXERT A DIFFERENT EFFECT ON GASTRIC EMPTYING IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS AND DIABETIC GASTROPARESIS CHRONIC ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF ERYTHROMYCIN (Em) IN DIABETIC GASTROPARESIS DOES NOT INDUCE TACHIPHYIAXIS Comparative study of segmental colonic transit time in sportsman with comparison to inactive people INFLUENCE OF N G ‐NITRO‐L‐ARGININE METHYLESTER ON NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC RELAXATION IN THE CAT GASTRIC FUNDUS. ENKEPHALIN‐CONTAINING NEURONS IN THE CAT INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLION PROJECTING TO THE DISTAL COLON. APAMIN BLOCKS RELAXATIONS INDUCED BY ELECTRICAL FIELD STIMULATION, NITRIC OXIDE (NO) AND NO‐DONORS IN THE RAT DUODENUM BUT NOT IN THE OPOSSUM LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER (LES). TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF OESOPHAGEAL SENSORY AND MOTOR PATHWAYS ON THE HUMAN CORTEX. BIOFEDBACK TRAINING FOR ANAL INCONTINENCE: ONLY A FLASH IN THE PAN? ACID CLEARANCE AND ESOPHAGEAL SENSITIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS (PSS). EFFECTS OF TOPICAL CISAPRIDE ON ANORECTAL FUNCTION: 'TIS NOT ALWAYS THE SAME. SELECTIVE SLOWING OF PROXIMAL COLON TRANSIT IN IBS BY A CCK‐RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST. LOXIGLUMIDE. ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC PATTERN OF COLONIC MOTILITY INDUCED BY ACETORPHAN IN THE RAT. DOPAMINERGIC MODULATION OF COLONIC MOTOR RESPONSE TO FOOD IN IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION. SMALL BOWEL MOTILITY DURING NUTRITION WITH ENTERAL FORMULAS CONTAINING PEPTIDES AND INTACT PROTEIN IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS MANOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL DYSPHAGIA. ERYTHROMYCIN SHORTENS THE GASTRIC RESIDENCE TIME OF INDIGESTIBLE PARTICLES IN DIABETIC GASTROPARESIS. EFFECT OF MOTILIN ON THE ILEUM AND GALLBLADDER MOTILITY OF WAKEFUL DOGS SMALL BOWEL (SB) MOTILITY IN THE IMMEDIATE POST‐OPERATIVE PERIOD: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF RECTAL CISAPRIDE. NEURAL CONTROL MECHANISMS IN ISOLATED ARTERIALLY PERFUSED RAT INTESTINE. INTRALUMINAL METHOD FOR STUDYING THE PROPAGATION OF GASTRIC CONTROL POTENTIAL IN MAN. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE EFFECTS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND NIFEDIPINE ON MOTOR ACTIVITY OF THE ACHALASIC ESOPHAGUS. MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENCE OF NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE IN INTRINSIC NEURONS OF THE HUMAN AND PORCINE ILEOCAECAL JUNCTION. ANTRAL DISTENSION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GASTRIC EMPTYING TIME IN INFLUENCING THE DYSPEPTIC SYMPTOMS. EFFECT OF NEOSTIGMINE, GLUCAGON AND MEAL ON LEFT COLON TONE IN IBS PATIENTS, USING A COMPUTERIZED BAROSTAT. CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO RECEPTOR SUBTYPES FOR PGE2 INDUCING OPPOSITE EFFECTS IN ISOLATED CELLS FROM THE CIRCULAR LAYER OF DOG COLON. OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR STUDY OF COLONIC SENSORY THRESHOLDS IN IBS PATIENTS. EFFECT OF PROSTIGMINE AND RANITIDINE ON INTERDIGESTIVE ANTRO‐DUODENAL (A‐D) MOTILITY IN CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC GASTROPARESIS. HIGH‐RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND STUDIES OF THE EFFECT OF SUBMAXIMAL EXERCISE ON THE MOTILITY AND CONFIGURATION OF THE GASTRIC ANTRUM IN HUMANS. ADAPTATION OF GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT TO CHRONIC INTERMITTENT ILEAL LIPID INFUSION THE INFLUENCE OF ONDANSETRON & GRAMSETRON ON THE GASTROINTESTINAL RESPONSE TO ILEAL LIPID INFUSION 5‐HT‐INDUCED RELAXATIONS OF GUINEA‐PIG COLON MEDIATED BY NITRIC OXIDE AUTOMATED DETECTION AND SCORING OF PERISTALSIS IN THE HUMAN SMALL BOWEL IMPLICATION OF 5‐HT3 RECEPTORS AND SENSORY NERVES IN THE EFFECTS OF MAST CELL DEGRANULATION ON RAT COLONIC MOTILITY. COMPUTED CHARACTERISATION OF THE HUMAN FED RESPONSE IN AMBULANT SMALL BOWEL MOTILITY RECORDINGS ESOPHAGEAL pH MONITORING AND ENDOSCOPY IN PATIENTS WITH REFLUX SYMPTOMS. EFFECT OF ZACOPRIDE ON ORO CECAL TRANSIT TIME (OCIT) AND COLONIC TRANSIT TIME (CTT) IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ROLE OF DELTA AND KAPPA OPIOID RECEPTORS IN MOTILITY OF HUMAN COLON IN VITRO. GASTRIC EMPTYING OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS IN GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE. REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS‐A COMPLICATION OF CHRONIC TREATMENT WITH SUBLINGUAL NIFEDIPINE IN ACHALASIA PATIENTS. EVOLUTION OF AMBULATORY ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY ANALYSIS. GASTRIC EMPTYING OF SOLIDS IN SUB‐POPULATIONS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC DYSPEPSIA. ESOPHAGEAL MOTOR FUNCTION: WHAT IS NORMAL? A MANO‐METRIC STUDY OF 136 HEALTHY SUBJECTS. A NEW METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER: THE SLOW MOTORIZED PULL‐THROUGH. DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH OF NON‐ULCER DYSPEPSIA (NUD) IN CHILDREN. NITRIC OXIDE RELEASE FROM NON‐ADRENERGIC NON‐CHOLINERGIC NERVES IN THE CANINE ILEOCOLONIC JUNCTION IS CA ++ ‐DEPENDENT. CHILDREN WITH NON‐ULCER DYSPEPSIA (NUD) AND MOTILITY DISORDERS OF GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) TRACT: ARE THEY PART OF THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM OF CHRONIC IDIOATHIC INTESTINAL PSEUDO‐OBSTRUCTION (CIIP)?. ROLE OF ATYPICAL β‐ADRENOCEPTORS IN THE REGULATION OF COLONIC MOTILITY IN DIFFERENT SPECIES. INTEGRATIVE PROPERTIES OF MAMMALIAN PREVERTEBRAL SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA REEVALUATED BY IN SITU PATCH‐CLAMPING GANGLIONIC NEURONES. ANAL ENDOSONOGRAPHY (EUS) AND CONCURRENT ELECTROMYOGRAPHY: A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE FOR ASSESSING ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING OF THE ANAL SPHINCTER COMPLEX. CAN ESOPHAGEAL MOTOR DISORDERS BE PREDICTED BY SYMPTOMS. EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS KETAMINE ON GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY IN THE DOG. DIFFERENCES IN THE MECHANICAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN AND PORCINE ILEOCECAL JUNCTION IN VITRO. INVOLVEMENT OF CAPSAICIN‐SENSITIVE AFFERENT NERVES IN THE INTESTINAL MOTOR DISTURBANCES INDUCED BY INTESTINAL ANAPHYLAXIS IN RAT. LONG TERM EFFECTS OF BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY FOR INCONTINENCE ESOFHAGEAL pH AND MANOMETRIC PATTERNS IN PATIENTS AFFECTED BY ACQUIRED SHORT ESOPHAGUS (ASE). ARK 5‐HT4 IN ADDITION TO 5‐HT3 RECEPTORS INVOLVED IN DRUG‐INDUCED REVERSAL OF CISPLATIN EFFECTS ON GASTRIC EMPTYING IN THE RAT? ACID GASTRO‐ESOPHAGEAL REFLUX (GER), GASTRIC ACIDITY AND OUTCOME OF EROSIVE ESOPHAGITIS TREATED WITH H 2 ‐BLOCKERS. FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION AND INTESTINAL NEUROPEPTIDES: CORRELATION BETWEEN RESULTS OF MANOMETRIC AND REFLEXES STUDY OF THE COLON AND SERUM LEVELS OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE, SUBSTANCE P, NEUROPEPTIDE Y AND PEPTIDE YY. GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN PATIENTS WITH SLEEP APNOE SYNDROME. BIOMECHANICAL WALL PROPERTIES AND COLLAGEN CONTENT OF OPOSSUM ESOPHAGUS SECONDARY TO LOWER ESOPHAGEAL & BANDING. SPONTANEOUS MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX IN ISOLATED IN VITRO RABBIT INTESTINAL PREPARATION. THE INFLAMMATORY MEDIATOR PGD 2 EVOKES CHLORIDE SECRETION BY EXCITATION OF GUINEA‐PIG COLONIC SUBMUCOSAL NEURONS. COMPARATIVE INVOLVEMENT OF 5HT1, 5HT2 AND 5HT3 RECEPTORS IN STRESS‐INDUCED COLONIC MOTOR ALTERATIONS IN RATS. ISOBARIC DISTENSION OF THE RECTUM IN HEALTH AND PATIENTS WITH DIARRHEA PREDOMINANT IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS). DISTENSION OF PROXIMAL COLON ALTERS GASTRIC MOTILITY IN FASTED DOGS: EFFECT OF FEDOTOZINE AND KAPPA AGONIST. STORAGE OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS AT DIFFERENT SITES OF THE HUMAN COLON DURING FLUID OVERLOAD. CORPRO‐ANTRO‐PYLORIC CO‐ORDINATION IN MOTILITY AND GASTRIC EMPTYING EFFECTS OF THE THORACIC SPLANCHNIC NERVES LIGATURE ON THE ENKEPHALIN IMMUNOREACTIVITY OF SYMPATHETIC PREVERTEBRAL GANGLIA AND GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. EFFECT OF MORPHINE ON THE MYOELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF A NEUROVASCULARLY DISCONNECTED CANINE JEJUNAL LOOP. SPATIAL SPREAD OF THE MIGRATING MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX IS REGULATED BY THE INTESTINAL MICROBIAL FLORA IN RATS. COLONIC TRANSIT IN FAECAL INCONTINENCE ILEOCAECAL TRANSIT IN CONSTIPATION AND IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME ASSESSMENT OF ANORECTAL FUNCTION: SCINTIGRAPHIC DEFAECOGRAPHY OR CONVENTIONAL DEFAECATING PROCTOGRAPHY? SCINTIGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF ANORECTAL FUNCTION CHARACTERIZATION OF MYOELECTRIC MOTOR COMPLEXES IN FED AND FASTED STATES IN CHICKENS. PAF‐Acether INDUCES A CONTRACTION OF ISOLATED SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS FROM GUINEA PIG ILEUM. RETROGRADE GIANT CONTRACTION (RGC)‐LIKE ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATED IN CHICKENS. A WAVE OF INHIBITION PRECEDES SECONDARY ESOPHAGEAL PERISTALTIC CONTRACTIONS IN MAN BIPHASIC EFFECTS OF MORPHINE ON COLONIC MOTOR ACTIVITY IN THE DOG. A NEW METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF STRESS‐STRAIN RELATIONS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE IN VIVO. STRESS REDUCES NORMAL OESOPHAGEAL PERISTALSIS SEROTONIN (5‐HT) AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX (MMC) IN DOGS. ROLE OF CCK IN THE REGULATION OF GALLBLADDER AND INTESTINAL MOTILITY IN THE DOG. PATTERN OF HUMAN POSTPRANDIAL ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY: EFFECT OF CISAPRIDE. 24 HOURS MANOMETRY OF THE COLON IN SUBGROUPS OF PATIENTS WITH IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME.