The stomach in health and disease
The stomach is traditionally regarded as a hollow muscular sac that initiates the second phase of digestion. Yet this simple view ignores the fact that it is the most sophisticated endocrine organ with unique physiology, biochemistry, immunology and microbiology. All ingested materials, including ou...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106623 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9307-6116 |