The digestive systems of mammals exemplify a remarkable spectrum of adaptations that have evolved in tandem with dietary specialisations. These adaptations encompass both morphological ...

Based upon observations of the digestive processes of Alexis St. Martin. Original title: Experiments and observations on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion. Signatures: [1]⁶ 2-25⁶ 26².

AS time advances it becomes ever clearer to many of those whose business it is to consider the manner in which university teaching should be carried on that the usual systematic course of lectures on ...

Springer is founding a new journal Food Digestion, dedicated to a quickly growing area of research – food science combined with the physiology of digestion. The journal will publish two issues in 2010 ...

Based on: Recent Advances in the Physiology of Digestion. By Ernest H. Starling, M.D., F.R.S. 156 pages. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co. 1906.

1. Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an ...

Concerns the case of Alexis St. Martin, whose relations with Beaumont are summarized in the introduction. This edition was reissued in Boston in 1834. The second American edition was published in 1847 ...