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[Theoretical and practical aspects of ileogastric reflexes]
Abstract:
Pathologic manifestations of the ileo-gastric reflex are infrequent. In the case of terminal intestinal angulation the pathologic reflex-situation can cause misleading gastric symptoms, which earlier have been supposed to be of reflectory origin but have not been investigated experimentally. On the basis of experience gained with patients suffering from terminal intestinal angulation it has been demonstrated in animal experiments that impulses generated by the strain of the wall of the terminal intestine acts on the stomach like a sympathetic stimulation. This reflex relationship is decisively of a nervous type. The anatomy of the reflex path has also been clarified. Animal experiments support the possibility of a reflex are acting via the coeliac ganglion and that the effect of the viscero-visceral reflex takes place through that reflex are on gastric acid secretion and on the blood content of the gastric mucosa.
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