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This contemporary review summarizes recent basic science and human clinical studies concerning normal sensorimotor mechanisms and the organization and function of colorectal motility and defaecation.
This chapter provides a contemporary review of the neuroanatomy and physiology of colorectal function and defaecation.
Updates synthesis of colorectal sensorimotor function; extends prior knowledge but leaves clinical translation open.
Colorectal physiology is complex and involves programmed, coordinated interaction between muscular and neuronal elements. Whilst a detailed understanding remains elusive, novel information has emerged from recent basic science and human clinical studies concerning normal sensorimotor mechanisms and the organization and function of the key elements involved in the control of motility. This chapter summarizes these observations to provide a contemporary review of the neuroanatomy and physiology of colorectal function and defaecation.
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Brookes et al. (2009) conducted a review in Colorectal function and defaecation. This contemporary review summarizes recent basic science and human clinical studies concerning normal sensorimotor mechanisms and the organization and function of colorectal motility and defaecation.
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