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Keywords:

Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, MIGRATING MOTOR COMPLEX, INTERDIGESTIVE GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY, BINGE-EATING DISORDER, III-LIKE CONTRACTIONS, FOOD-INTAKE, SMALL-INTESTINE, OBESE-PATIENTS, GHRELIN, GUT, MECHANISMS, Interdigestive motility, ghrelin, hunger, manometry, migrating motor complex, motilin, stomach physiology, Appetite, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Duodenum, Eating, Erythromycin, Gastrointestinal Motility, Ghrelin, Humans, Hunger, Manometry, Motilin, Muscle Contraction, Myoelectric Complex, Migrating, Neostigmine, Octreotide, Peptide Fragments, Somatostatin, Stomach, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3210 Nutrition and dietetics

Abstract:

Hunger is controlled by the brain, which receives input from signals of the GI tract (GIT). During fasting, GIT displays a cyclical motor pattern, the migrating motor complex (MMC), regulated by motilin.