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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Main Authors: Hunt, R H, Camilleri, M, Crowe, S E, El-Omar, E M, Kuipers, E J, Malfertheiner, P, McColl, K E L, Pritchard, D M, Rugge, M, Sonnenberg, A, Sugano, K, Tack, J, Fox, James G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106623
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9307-6116