Abstracts for the 7th European Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility: 7–9 JULY 1994, PARC DES EXPOSITIONS, TOULOUSE, FRANCE

OESOPHAGEAL PERCEPTION BUT NOT MOTOR FUNCTION IS DECREASED BY INTRALUMINAL BENZOCAINE Abnormal motor response to graded esophageal DISTENSION IN NON‐CARDIAC CHEST PAIN ‐ THE MISSING LINK? LOCALISATION OF CORTICAL CENTRES FOR HUMAN OESOPHAGEAL FUNCTION BY COREGISTRATION OF MAGNETOMETRY AND MAGNETIC STIMULATION DATA ON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANS DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF INTRADUODENAL LIPID ALTER GASTRIC, SENSORY BUT NOT THE MOTOR RESPONSES TO DISTENSION ACUPUNCTURE AFFECTS PERCEPTION OF GASTRIC DISTENSION BY NALOXONE‐SENSITIVE PATHWAYS IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE PROKINETIC PROPERTIES OF 5‐HT3 ANTAGONISTS. SENSITIVITY OF MESENTERIC AFFERENT NERVES TO NITRIC OXIDE ANTINOCICEPTIVE EFFECTS OF CINITAPRIDE IN TWO MODELS RELATED TO VISCERAL PAIN IN RODENTS. SUBSTANCE P STIMULATES AND INHIBITS INTESTINAL PERISTALSIS BY AN ACTION ON DISTINCT RECEPTORS. INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM OF NITRIC OXIDE‐INDUCED CONTRACTION IN THE RAT SMALL INTESTINE INTESTINAL MOTILITY RESPONSES TO NEUROPEPTIDE γ IN VITRO AND IN VIVO IN THE RAT; COMPARISON WITH NEUROKININ 1 AND NEUROKININ 2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS. NITRERGIC SYMPATHETIC RELAXATION OF THE GUINEA‐PIG STOMACH IS INCREASED BY BLOCKADE OF α 2 ADRENORECEPTORS. GUT MOTILITY DISORDERS IN CALVES SENSITIVE TO SOYA WHEN FED CHRONICALLY. SMALL BOWEL ALLOGRAFT PARALYSIS OCCURS DURING EARLY‐STAGE ACUTE REJECTION IN A RAT MODEL. SPIKE ACTIVITY AND THE MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX OF THE SMALL BOWEL IN THE SENSITIZED RAT IS SELECTIVELY VULNERABLE TO STRESS. FEDOTOZINE INHIBITS ABDOMINAL CONSTRICTIONS INDUCED BY COLONIC DISTENSION DURING COLONIC IRRITATION IN CONSCIOUS RATS MORPHOLOGY AND NEUROCHEMICAL CODING OF FUNCTIONAL DISTINCT ENTERIC NEURONES. PERIPHERAL CCK‐B RECEPTORS AND CENTRAL CCK‐A RECEPTORS MODULATE SMALL INTESTINE MOTOR PATTERNS IN THE RAT A UNIQUE SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE EXTERNAL ANAL SPHlNCTER. INTESTINAL PHASE OF HUMAN ANTRO‐PYLORO‐DUODENAL MOTILITY: CHOLlNERGlC AND CCK‐MEDIATED REGULATION. L‐NITROARGININE (NOARG) BLOCKS THE RELAXATION OF THE RAT DUODENUM INDUCED BY THE ACTIVATION OF CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK) RECEPTORS . ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE (NO) IN THE REGULATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE MOTOR PATTERNS. NO MEDIATES GASTRIC RELAXATION INDUCED BY VAGAL STIMULATION IN THE ANESTHETIZED DOG. CHOLINERGIC MEDIATION OF ERYTHROMYCIN STIMULATING GASTRIC MOTILITY AND PANCREATIC SECRETION IN HUMANS. THE EFFECTS OF LONG‐TERM TREATMENT WITH ANTHRANOIDS ANDSODIUM PICOSULPHATE ON THE CONTENTS OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE, SOMATOSTATIN, AND SUBSTANCE P IN RAT COLONS. OPTICAL RECORDING OF MEMBRANE POTENTIAL CHANGES IN CULTURED MYENTERIC NEURONS USING A LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE. NPY MICROINJECTED INTO THE PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS (PVN) STIMULATES COLONIC TRANSIT WITHOUT AFFECTING GASTRIC EMPTYING TN THE CONSCIOUS RAT. THE NITRERGIC FACTOR RELEASED FROM NON‐ADRENERGIC NON‐CHOLINERGIC NERVES PHARMACOLOGICALLY BEHAVES LIKE NITRIC OXIDE. DISTRIBUTION OF VIP‐ AND NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE‐IMMUNOREACTIVE NEURONS IN THE ENTERIC PLEXUS OF THE HUMAN COLON. CO‐TRANSMITTERS PRESENT IN CHOLINERGIC ENTERIC NEURONES OF THE GUINEA‐PIG STOMACH. BOMBESIN, SOMATOSTATIN AND VIP RELEASE BY cAMP‐AND cGMP‐DEPENDENT MECHANISMS FROM ENTERIC SYNAPTOSOMES INVOLVEMENT OF K + ‐CHANNELS AND INTRACELLULAR CA 2+ ‐STORES IN THE INHIBITORY ACTION OF NANC MEDIATORS IN RAT ILEUM AUTONOMIC FUNCTION DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH ACHALASIA OF THE ESOPHAGUS. OESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY AND GASTROOESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN PATIENTS WITH VARIANT ANGINA PECTORIS. UPPER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER BEHAVIOUR FOLLOWING MAGNETOELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE HUMAN CORTEX. CORRELATION BETWEEN GASTRIC AND GALLBLADDER EMPTYING AND FILLING IN NORMAL SUBJECTS AND PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DYSPEPSIA. CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDO‐OBSTRUCTION: ANTI‐DUODENAL MANOMETRY MAY PREDICT OUTCOME PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION (PMR) REDUCES SYMPTOMS AND INCREASES THE THRESHOLD OF COLONIC PAIN PERCEPTION WITHOUT MODIFYING COLONIC TONE IN PATIENTS WITH IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS) EFFECTS OF IV ERYTHROMYCIN (ERY) ON GASTRIC EMPTYING, DUODENO‐CAECAL TRANSIT TIME, GASTRIC AND BILIO‐PANCREATIC SECRETION DURING ENTERAL NUTRITION IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. FOREGUT FUNCTION IN IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME. SUBCELLULAR LOCALISATION OF THE MOTILIN RECEPTOR. MODULATION OF RAT MESENTERIC AFFERENT DISCHARGE BY GRANISETRON AND DEVAZEPIDE AFFERENT INNERVATION OF CIRCULAR MUSCLE IN HUMAN COLON THE EFFECTS OF ANTAGONISM OF 5HT 3 RECEPTORS WITH ALOSETRON ON THE TRANSIT OF A MEAL AND THE ILEAL BRAKE IN MAN. ROLE OF 5‐HT 4 RECEPTORS IN THE REGULATION OF THE MIGRATING MYOELECTRIC COMPLEX IN SHEEP. EFFECT OF THE PUTATIVE MOTILIN ANTAGONIST ANQ‐11168 ON THE MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX (MMC) IN CONSCIOUS DOGS. Signal transduction pathways of muscarinic receptors in circular smooth muscle from the rabbit caecum EFFECT OF ZAMIFENACIN, A NOVEL M 3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST, ON GASTRIC EMPTYING AND SMALL BOWEL TRANSIT IN MAN. PROKINETIC BENZAMIDES DO NOT STIMULATE SMALL INTESTINAL TRANSIT IN THE CONSCIOUS RAT. 17454 JL, A NEW BENZAMIDE WITH A POTENT COLONIC STIMULANT EFFECT IN RATS AND DOGS. (R)‐ZACOPRIDE INCREASES THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER PRESSURE IN THE CONSCIOUS DOG. VB20B7, A NOVEL GASTROKINETIC AGENT WITH 5‐HT, RECEPTOR AGONIST AND 5‐HT 3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROPERTIES CISAPRIDE FACILITATES INHIBITORY PURINERGIC‐TRANSMISSION IN THE GUINEA PIG COLON. POST‐OPERATIVE ANTRAL MOTILITY: THE EFFECT OF RECTAL CISAPRIDE. INVOLVEMENT OF 5‐HT 4 RECEPTORS IN THE GASTROENTEROKINETIC PROPERTIES OF R‐ZACOPRIDE IN THE ANAESTHETIZED DOG. EFFECT OF CISAPRIDE ON THE RABBIT DUODENUM. RELATION TO MOTILIN RECEPTOR. THE STIMULANT ACTION OF LINTOPRIDE, A 5‐HT 4 RECEPTOR AGONIST, ON THE CANINE ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER PRESSURE IS NOT MODIFIED AFTER SUBCHRONIC ADMINISTRATION. FEDOTOZINE MODULATES AUTONOMIC TONE BY POTENTIATING VAGALLY MEDIATED RESPONSES FOLLOWING ESOPHAGEAL STIMULATION IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. EFFECT OF YM060 ON 5‐HT 3 RECEPTOR MEDIATED MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION IN MYENTERIC NEURONS OF THE GUINEA PIG DISTAL COLON. EFFECTS OF CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS ON HORMONE‐INDUCED CONTRACTION OF ISOLATED GASTRIC SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS. BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ENKEPHALINS IN BRAIN, PREVERTEBRAL GANGLIA AND DIGESTIVE TRACT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CATS, GUINEA‐PIGS AND RATS SEGMENTAL LOCALISATION OF MYOGENIC PACEMAKER REGIONS IN THE RAT ILEUM IN VITRO ASSESSMENT OF ARGYROPHILIA IN THE DEVELOPING HUMAN MYENTERIC PLEXUS TWO INDEPENDENT PACEMAKERS DRIVE THE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CANINE ILEUM. THE EFFECT OF NON‐ADRENERGIC, NON‐CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION AND PEPTIDES ON HUMAN ISOLATED COLON SMOOTH MUSCLE DIFFERENT LOCATION OF TONIC CONTRACTION PATTERNS IN ISOLATED HUMAN, CANINE AND PORCINE DUODENUM. NONADRENERGIC‐NONCHOLINERGIC (NANC) NERVE MEDIATED RELAXATIONS IN THE OPOSSUM (Didelphis albiventris) ILEOCOLONIC JUNCTION (ICJ ). BOMBESIN‐RELATED PEPTIDES STIMULATE CAT SMALL INTESTINAL SMOOTH MUSCLE VIA GASTRIN‐RELEASING PEPTIDE‐PREFERRING RECEPTOR EFFECTS OF THYROID HORMONES ON ISOLATED CIRCULAR MUSCLE OF RAT COLON. EFFECTS OF ALVERINE ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF VAGAL AFFERENT NEURONS IN ISOLATED RABBIT NODOSE GANGLIA. INFLUENCE OF NEUROTENSIN ON MECHANICAL ACTIVITY IN RAT PROXIMAL COLON. IN VITRO CONTRACTILITY OF THE RAT INTESTINAL LONGITUDINAL SMOOTH MUSCLE (ILSM) IN RESPONSE TO SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACIDS (SCFA). EFFECT OF SHORT‐CHAIN FATTY ACIDS ON PRIMARY CULTURE OF COLONIC AND ILEAL SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL. EFFECTS OF CHOLECYSTOKININ ON CHICKEN COLON. STUDY OF ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE GASTROCOLIC RESPONSE. Role of NO in regulation of antral motility and hormones release in humans. EFFECTS OF CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE (CCK‐OP) ON THE TONIC AND PHASIC MOTOR ACTIVITY OF THE HUMAN COLON. PRESERVED INTENSITY OF THE MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX IN SMALL INTESTINE AFER CHRONIC BILIARY DIVERSION IN RATS EVIDENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF AN “ILEAL BREAK” MECHANISM IN AVIAN SPECIES. THE ACTIONS OF MORPHINE ON MESENTERIC AFFERENT DISCHARGES IN THE RAT. EFFECTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS ON COLONIC AND SMALL BOWEL MYOELECTRICAL ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOR. EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ON GASTRIC EMPTYING. ILEAL VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS INHIBIT GASTRIC MOTILITY AND EMPTYING IN PIGS. INVOLVEMENT OF BRAIN NORADRENERGIC SYSTEMS IN THE MODULATION OF COLONIC MYOELECTRlC ACTIVITY IN RATS. RECEPTORS INVOLVED IN THE INHIBITION OF FORESTOMACH MYOELECTRICAL ACTIVITY BY SEROTONIN IN SHEEP. EFFECTS OF SOMATOSTATIN ON FLOW RATE, TRANSIT TIME AND ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS IN PIGS. EXCITATION OF SMALL INTESTINE MECHANORECEPTORS ALTERS NEURONAL ACTIVITY OF THE SPINAL SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA EFFETCS OF FEEDBACK CONTROL ON INTESTINAL MOTILITY, FLOW RATE AND TRANSIT TIME IN MINI‐PIGS. DECREASED COLONIC COMPLIANCE AFTER INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANCLIONECTOMY IN DOGS. ASCENDING PERISTALTIC REFLEX CONTRACTIONS IN THE CANINE DUODENUM IS RELATED TO THE PHASE OF THE INTERDIGESTIVE MIGRATING MOTILITY COMPLEX. INVOLVEMENT OF SEROTONIN AND CHOLECYSTOKININ IN THE MOTOR RESPONSE OF THE ILEUM TO ACIDIFICATION IN THE HORSE. FLUCTUATIONS OF BLOOD FLOW IN THE PORTAL VEIN AND GASTRODUODENAL MOTILITY DURING THE MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX (MMC) AND FEEDING IN CONSCIOUS DOGS. THE ASSESSMENT OF THE EVACUATORY FUNCTION OF THE SMALL BOWEL IN VARIOUS METHODS OF RECONSTRUCTIVE OPERATIONS ON THE BILIARY TRACT. INFLUENCE OF AGING ON CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GENERATION DURING NANC STIMULATION OF THE RAT GASTRIC FUNDUS. EFFECT OF DUODENOPLASTY OR DUODENAL SEGMENTAL RESECTION ON ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL ACTIVITY OF THE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INTRALUMINAL CROSS‐SECTIONAL AREAS AND DISTENSIBILITY OF THE NORMAL PORCINE OESOPHAGUS AND THE OESOPHAGUS DAMAGED BY ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY. ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY OF SPINAL AFFERENTS IN THE MUCOSA OF THE CAT ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION WITH FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION. POSITIVE ACTION OF A PAF‐ANTAGONIST (BN 50727) ON THE POST‐ISCHEMIC RECOVERY OF THE JETUNAL MOTILITY IN DOG EFFECTS OF PERIPHERALLY VS CENTRALLY ADMINISTERED CALCITONIN ON MEAL‐ AND CERULEIN‐INDUCED GALLBLADDER EMPTYING IN DOGS MODULATION OF THE MOUSE GALLBLADDER SENSITIVITY TO CCK BY CHRONIC DIETS WITH DIFFERENT PROTEIN COMPOSITION. COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF ERYTHROMYCIN AND A NEW ERYTHROMYCIN DERIVATIVE, KC 11458, ON POSTPRANDIAL GALLBLADDER EMPTYING IN DOGS. THE EFFECT OF MEAL CALORIC CONTENTS ON GALLBLADDER (GB) MOTOR ACTIVITY A NEW METHOD OF RECORDING COLONIC MOTILITY VIA CHRONICALLY IMPLANTED RADIOTELEMETRY CAPSULES (RTCs): A COMPARISON WITH SEROSAL STRAIN GAUGES (SGs). CONTINUOUS IN‐VIVO MANOMETRY OF THE HUMAN GALLBLADDER ORIGIN AND PROPAGATION OF THE SLOW WAVE IN THE ISOLATED FELINE STOMACH AS REVEALED BY HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING. JEJUNAL CONTROL OF THE TRANSPYLORIC FLOW AND PYLORIC RESISTANCE. SIMULTANEOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION BY MEANS OF REAL‐TIME ULTRASONOGRAPHY AND STRAM GAUGE IN THE DOG MEASUREMENT OF GASTRIC EMPTYING RATE WITH AN INTRAGASTRIC GAMMA PROBE. D ynamics of the C hances in M otility , E vacuation and EMG in E xperimental D uodenal S tenosis . NONINVASIVE 13 C‐OCTANOIC ACID BREATH TEST FOR MEASUREMENT OF SOLID GASTRIC EMPTYING: REPRO‐DUCIBILITY IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND COMPARISON TO SCINTIGRAPHY IN DIABETICS. COMPUTER SWPORTED ANALYSIS OF AMBULATORY MANOMETERIC RECORDINGS IN THE HUMAN SMALL BOWEL ALGORITHM AND VALIDATION CONTRACTILE PATTERNS IDENTIFIED BY COMPUTER ANALYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SMALL INTESTINAL PATHOLOGY NON‐ULCER DYSPEPSIA (NUD): IS USONOGIUPWTF DIAGNOSTIC USE? E lectrogastrography in non‐ulcer dyspepsia : B ack to square one ? FUNCTION OR IMAGE: EMG VERSUS ENDOSONOGRAPHY TO DETECT ANAL SPHINCTER DEFECTS. CHOLESCINTIGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF EXTRAHEPATIC BILE TRANSIT AS AN INDIRECT TEST OF SPHINCTER OF ODDI MOTOR FUNCTION. DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES IN THE EVALUATION OF ESOPHAGEAL MOTOR DISORDERS IN GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD) VIDEO BARIUM ESOPHOGRAPHY (VBE). A SIMPLE METHOD TO EVALUATE ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY DISORDERS IN GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD). TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF ESOPHAGEAL MOTOR FUNCTION IN MAN REVISITED IS THE MANOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER CLINICALLY USEFUL? 24–HOUR AMBULATORY ESOPHAGEAL MANOMETRY IN NORMAL SUBJECTS (Cooperative study). EFFECTS OF ESOPHAGEAL STIMULATION ON CARDIAC AUTONOMIC FUNCTION IN MAN. THE ROLES OF THE PROXIMAL AND THE DISTAL STOMACH IN MODULATING GASTRIC EMPTYING. DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF WHITE WINE AND RED WINE ON GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERDIGESTIVE ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC MOTILITY IN HUMANS. SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF GASTRIC TONE AND ANTRAL MOTILITY AFTER A SOLID MEAL IN HUMANS. E ffects of N itric oxide (NO) on gastric emptying and D rocecal T ransit T ime PATTERN OF GASTRIC EMPTYING AND ANTRODUDOENAL MOTILITV AFTER GLUCOSE INGESTION. EFFECT OF BRAN PARTICLE SIZE ON GASTRIC EMPTYING AND SMALL BOWEL TRANSIT OF FOOD AND BRAN COMPARISON OF DUODENOJEJUNAL (DJ) MOTOR ATTERNS AFTER ORAL AND DURING ENTERAL UTRITION (EN) IN MAN. MMC‐RELATED DUODENOJERINAL ANTEGRADE AND RETROGRADE PERISTALSIS IN HUMANS. THE EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND AN OPIOID AGONIST ON POSTPRANDIAI. MOTOR ACTIVITY IN THE HUMAN SMALL BOWEL. COMPARISON BETWEEN PHYSIOLOGICAL AND TRYTHROMYCIN INDUCED INTERDIGESTIVE MOTILITY. EFFECTS OF A CHRONIC SUPPLEMENTATION OF THE USUAL DIET WITH DIETARY FIBERS ON 24 HOUR COLONIC MOTILITY IN MAN. VALUE OF ESOPHAGEAL LONG TERM PHMANOMETRY IN PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS ‐ A COMPARISON WITH TRANSIT SCINTIGRAPHY EFFECTS OF GASTRIC DISTENSION, & DUODENAL INFUSION OF ACID, 5% NaCI & OLEATE SOLUTIONS & STROKE VOLUME ON ANTRODUODENAL MOTOR RESPONSES. PATIENTS WITH DIFFUSE ESOPHAGEAL SPASM SHOW AN ABNORMAL ESOPHAGO‐CARDIAC INHIBITORY REFLEX EFFECTS OF NIFEDIPINE ON PERCEPTION OF ESOPHAGEAL DISTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH NON CARDIAC CHEST PAIN PERMISSIVE ROLE OF TEE ESOPEAGEAL BODY DURING TRANSIENT LES RELAXATIONS (TSLESRs). A MECEANISM FOR INCREASED ACID REFLUX IN PATIENTS WITH REFLUX ESOPBAGITIS. DO ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC FUNCTIONAL STUDIES PREDICT CLINICAL COURSE OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE IN CHILDREN? MOTILITY DISORDERS OF THE ESOPHAGUS IN PRIMARY SJOGREN'S SYNDROME DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GASTRO‐OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN AMBULATORY GORD PATIENTS MEASURED WITH A 5–CHANNEL pH CATHETER. ACHALASIA: MALFUNCTION OF THE INTRINSIC INNERVATION BUT PRESERVED SENSITIVITY TO NITRIC OXIDE. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BENZODIAZEPINE HYDROCHLORIDE /TILDIEM IN ACHALSIA PATIENIS. THE EFFECTS OF NITRIC OXIDE (NO)‐RECEPTOR STIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH ACHALASIA. GASTRIC EMPTYING RATE IN RELATION TO AUTONOMIC AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND BLOOD GLUCOSE IN 52 PATIENTS WITH INSULIN‐DEPENDENT DIABETES. GASTRIC EMPTYING IN CHILDREN WITH GASTRIC TRANSPOSITION CCK IN THE CONTROL OF GASTRIC MOTOR AND SECRETORY RESPONSE IN NOW AND DUODENAL. ULCER (DU) PATIENTS. GASTRODUODENAL MOTILITY IN HIRSCHPRUNG'S DISEASE GASTRIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN CHILDREN PRESENTING WITH SYMPTOMS OF UPPER INTESTINAL DYSFUNCTION. INTESTINAL MANIFESTATION OF POLYMYOSITIS ‐ RARE OR RULE? DUODENO‐GASTRIC BILIARY REFLUX FOLOWING LAPAROSOOPIC CHO‐LECYSTECTOMY. SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE) AND CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUWOBSTRUCTION (CIPO). SMALL BOWEL MOTILITY IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU) PATIENTS: FASTING PATTERN AND MOTILIY RESPONSE TO ENTERAL NUTRITION. SLOW TRANSIT CONSTIPATION, A RESULT OF SELECTIVE AUTONOMIC DEFCITS? JEJUNAL MANOMETRY IN PATIENTS WITH THE SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME (SBS) AND INTERPOSITION OF A REVERSED SMALL BOWEL LOOP (RSBL). ABDOMINO‐PERINEAL DYSSYNERCIA AS WELL AS CHRONIC Neurogenic LESIONS OF THE EXTERNAL ANAL SPHINCTER MAY CAUSE OBSTRUCTED DEFAECATION. MECHAINSMS OF Anorexia AND VOMITING IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE: 1) GASTROESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY. D yspepsia IN A ids : R elationsship B ettween S ymptoms A nd F indings of F unctional ULTRASONOGRAPHY. MECHANISMS OF ANOREXlA AND VOMITING W CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE: II) POLYPEPTIDE HORMONES. IDENTIFICATION OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS) BY COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF PROXIMAL SMALL BOWEL MOTOR ACTIVITY. SMALL BOWEL MOTILITY IN THE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME WITH PREDOMINANT DIARRHEA. CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF VIP‐ AND NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (NOs) IMMUNOREACTIVE NEURONS AT THE VARIOUS COLONIC LEVELS. CHRONIC CONSTIPATION PATIENTS ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT FROM FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA AND IBS PATIENTS. DOES BIOFEEDBACK TREATMENT OP ANISMUS IMPROVE LONGTERM OUTCOME IN CONSTIPATION?