Viscoelastic behaviour aids extrusion from and reabsorption of the liquid phase into the digesta plug: Creep rheometry of hindgut digesta in the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 469-475

  Lentle, Roger G ^a   Hemar, Yacine ^a   Hall, Christopher E ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE; TIME; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PERISTALSIS; RHEOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOSURUS;

METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33744478415     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-006-0068-9     Document Type: Article

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