The Physical Processes of Digestion

• Main Authors: Lentle, Roger G. (Author), Janssen, Patrick W.M (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food > Biotechnology.; Nutrition.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Food Science.; Bioorganic Chemistry.

This book is aimed at physiologists, pharmacologists, nutritionists and food technologists whose work requires an understanding of the physical processes of digestion. <P>   The book provides an overview of what is known of the physical processes of digestion in man and other simple-stomached...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. The Digestion of Particle Suspensions
• 2. Microstructure and Digestion of Particles
• 3. Physical Aspects of the Digestion of Carbohydrate Particles
• 4. Physical Aspects of the Digestion of Protein Particles
• 5. Colloidal Dynamics and Lipid Digestive Efficiency
• 6. Physical Characteristics of Digesta
• Part II. The Effects of Contractile Activity of the Gut Wall and Its Structure on the Mixing and Absorption of Digesta
• 7. Contractile Activity and Control of the Physical Process of Digestion within a Gut Segment
• 8. Local Motility, Flow and Mixing in Tubular Segments of the Gut
• 9. Local Motility and Flow in Segments that Exhibit Volume Retention
• 10. Flow, Mixing and Absorption at the Mucosa
• Index.