The importance of being asymmetric: The physiology of digesta propulsion on earth and in space

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1027, Issue , 2004, Pages 74-84

  Arun, C P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b O and G   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collapsible tube; Digesta; Law of the intestine; Low Reynolds number; Peristalsis; Tube law

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAPHRAGM; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; DIGESTION; FLUID TRANSPORT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MESENTERY; MICROGRAVITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; SPACE; STOMACH; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TUBE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 10644227517     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1324.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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