📘 Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines the integrated curriculum components covered in this topic, aligned with standard MBBS learning objectives.
🔹Physiology
• Electrical activity of gastrointestinal smooth muscle
• Mechanism of excitation of smooth muscle
• Slow waves and spike potentials
• Mesenteric plexus
• Submucosal plexus
• Enteric neurotransmitters
• Autonomic nervous system regulation
• Sympathetic and parasympathetic modulation
• Gastrointestinal reflexes
• Gastrointestinal hormones
• Functional types of gastrointestinal movements
• Law of gut
• Blood flow through villus
• Splanchnic circulation
• Effect of metabolic activity on blood flow
• Nervous control of gastrointestinal blood flow
🔹Swallowing Physiology
• Mechanics of ingestion
• Chewing and mastication
• Stages of swallowing
• Effects of pharyngeal stage on respiration
- Basic mechanisms of stimulation of alimentary tract glands
- Dual effect of sympathetic stimulation on alimentary gland secretion
- Anatomy of gastrointestinal blood supply