The digestive systems of mammals exemplify a remarkable spectrum of adaptations that have evolved in tandem with dietary specialisations. These adaptations encompass both morphological ...

Based upon observations of the digestive processes of Alexis St. Martin. Original title: Experiments and observations on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion. Signatures: [1]⁶ 2-25⁶ 26².

When birds migrate over long distances to and from their breeding grounds, it takes more than strong flight muscles and an innate knowledge of where they're going. According to a University of ...

Springer is founding a new journal Food Digestion, dedicated to a quickly growing area of research – food science combined with the physiology of digestion. The journal will publish two issues in 2010 ...

1. Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an ...

Based on: Recent Advances in the Physiology of Digestion. By Ernest H. Starling, M.D., F.R.S. 156 pages. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co. 1906.

And it can be tempting to stop at that point. The answer to the How question lies in the physiology of digestion outside the main body of the organism; details obtained by study of other insectivorous ...

A man whose gunshot wound created a window into his stomach enabled scientists to understand digestion. But the patient, a fur trapper named Alexis St. Martin, also transformed how physiologists ...