Product Description: For medical and beginning graduate students, this text provides an indispensable introduction to the principles of membrane transport and bioelectricity. The clear presentation of key concepts and the excellent diagrams accompanying the text make this book a uniquely accessible introduction to a complex area of physiology...read more

Product Description: The four volumes of The Handbook of Physiology, Section 6: The Gastrointestinal System constitute another milestone in the rapidly progressing field of gastrointestinal science. No other work gives the subject such in-depth coverage or such contemporary treatment...read more

Product Description: Here is a thorough, up-to-date survey of the physiological processes through which salt, water, and nutrients are absorbed or secreted by the intestinal tract, and of how these myriad processes are regulated. In twenty-five chapters, written by a team of leading experts, the volume addresses four main topics: the methodologies and basic principles of structure and function; intestinal ion transport; nutrient absorption; and macromolecular transport...read more

Product Description: The third volume in The Gastrointestinal System reflects the expansion of knowledge of the cell physiology of secretion. Each chapter, grouped by traditional anatomical location, was written emphasizing the cellular bases of secretion and includes a review of the broader as well as the more integrative aspects of secretion...read more

Product Description: This volume marks the coming of age of knowledge concerning the neural and endocrine biology of the gut. It is the first volume in the Handbook of Physiology to be devoted entirely to this field. It is also the very first volume ever published that deals systematically with the biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and physiology of hormonal and neural peptides of the gut...read more

Product Description: Since the publication of the first volume on gastrointestinal motility in the Handbook of Physiology (1968), there has been an impressive development of new information, new methods and new understanding of motility. These advances span all levels of organization from single smooth muscle cells and neurons to integrated organ function,and they are expertly documented by the authors of this edition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Schultz, S. G.