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Motility disturbances of the small and large intestines are based on changes in the smooth-muscle potential, whereby the number of amplitudes and configuration of slow waves and of spike potentials as well as pattern, speed of propagation, and duration of the MMC are of crucial importance. Whereas the electromechanical principles of intestinal motility are sufficiently known, changes in the electromechanical activity in clinically manifest motility disturbances have as yet not been given due regard. Only recently, electromechanical measurements in the upper gastrointestinal tract and colon were performed in several gastrointestinal diseases of internal medicine. In the small intestine, changes in slow waves, spike potentials, and the MMC could be disclosed which are typical for hyperthyrosis, hypothyrosis, irritable bowel syndrome, bacterial diarrhea, primary and secondary intestinal pseudo-obstruction, short-bowel syndrome, postoperative bowel atonia, mechanical bowel obstruction, vagotomy, and diabetic enteropathy with disturbed gastric emptying. Regarding the colon, a disturbance in the electromechanical characteristics was found in irritable bowel syndrome, bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel, chronic constipation, and idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, which is probably identical with the clinical picture of adynamic ileus. Based on a thorough examination of the literature and on own results from electromechanical measurements in children, electromechanical disturbances have been narrowly defined.
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PMID:Electrophysiological principles of motility disturbances in the small and large intestines--review of the literature and personal experience. 251 98

Patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often have symptoms from both proximal and distal parts of the gut. Motility disturbances have been reported to occur from the esophagus to the distal colon in IBS patients. The patients often have a decreased lower esophageal sphincter pressure and various abnormalities of esophageal peristalsis. Mean transit time in the small intestine after a meal is short in patients with diarrhoea, and long in patients with constipation and pain compared with normals. IBS patients also show abnormalities of the interdigestive MMC, particularly when exposed to stressful stimuli. Previous studies of the colonic oscillating control potential suggested an increased prevalence of 3/min. slow waves in IBS patients compared with normals, but later studies could not confirm this. Long time measurements with multiple electrodes along the colon show a high prevalence of short-lasting segmental contractions in constipated patients, while both short and long-lasting contractions are decreased in painless diarrhoea. Rectal recordings in IBS patients have shown an increased contractile response up to 3 hrs after a meal. --The disturbed gut motility in IBS patients seems to be due no neural influences rather than strictly myogenic factors.
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PMID:Gastrointestinal motility in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome. 347 13

Alterations in both gastric emptying (GE) and small bowel motility have been reported in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); the relationship, however, between these different measures of upper gut motor function in IBS has not been assessed. The aims of this study were therefore: (1) to compare the prevalence and characteristics of altered small bowel motility in IBS patients with and without delayed GE; and (2) to assess the interrelationships between fasting and postprandial small bowel motility in IBS, accounting for delayed GE. Forty-four IBS patients and 25 healthy controls underwent 24 hr ambulant recording of interdigestive and digestive small bowel motility. On a separate occasion the IBS patients had GE of both solids and liquids measured by a dual-isotope scintigraphic technique. Thirty-nine percent of IBS patients had delayed GE. Patients with normal GE had no interdigestive small bowel abnormalities. However, in patients with delayed GE fasting phase II burst frequency was higher than in controls [median 0.21/hr (IQR 0.15-0.34) vs 0.06/hr (0-0,16), P = 0.004]. Postprandially, abnormal phase III-like activity was higher in diarrhea-predominant IBS patients (0-0.08/hr vs 0/hr, P = 0.01), than in patients with normal GE or controls. Furthermore, IBS patients with delayed GE did not have the normal correlation between fasting and postprandial motor parameters (percentage occurrence of clustered contractions, postprandial pattern duration vs preceding MMC cycle length). In conclusion, small bowel motor dysfunction occurs more frequently in IBS patients with concomitant gastroparesis than in patients with normal GE. These findings provide further evidence that a neuropathic process may contribute to the pathogenesis of IBS in a subgroup of IBS patients.
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PMID:Gastroparesis and small bowel dysmotility in irritable bowel syndrome. 936 40

Even though exciting progresses have been until now, further studies are necessary to clearly understand the significance of MMC. Mast cells are thought to participate in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. However, their role in the pathogenesis remains unsettled. The specific aims of this study were to (1) examine mucosal mast cell counts in the cecum in patient with IBS, and IBD (2) compare MMC between the disease groups. We showed increased MMC count in IBS.
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PMID:Mucosal mast cells in irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. 1664 31

The gastrointestinal tract represents the most important extra pineal source of melatonin. Presence of melatonin (M) suggests that this hormone is somehow involved in digestive pathophysiology. Release of GI melatonin from serotonin-rich enterochromaffin EC cells of the GI mucosa suggest close antagonistic relationship with serotonin (S) and seem to be related to periodicity of food intake. Food deprivation resulted in an increase of tissue and plasma concentrations of M. Its also act as an autocrine and paracrine hormone affecting not only epithelium and immune system but also smooth muscle of the digestive tract. Low doses M improve gastrointestinal transit and affect MMC. M reinforce MMCs cyclic pattern but inhibits spiking bowel activity. Pharmacological doses of M delay gastric emptying via mechanisms that involve CCK2 and 5HT3 receptors. M released in response to lipid infusion exerts a modulatory influence that decreases the inhibitory effects of the ileal brake on gastric emptying. On isolated bowel S induces dose dependent increase in tone and reduction in amplitude of contraction which is affected by M. M reduced the tone but not amplitude or frequency of contraction. M is a promising therapeutic agent for IBS with activities independent of its effects on sleep, anxiety or depression. Since of its unique properties M could be considered for prevention or treatment of colorectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, gastric ulcers and irritable bowel syndrome.
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PMID:Melatonin and serotonin effects on gastrointestinal motility. 1821 3