Gastrointestinal tract, anatomy

Schantz L.D., Laber-Laird K., Bingel S. and Swindle M. (1996). Pigs apphed anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract , in Jensen S.L., Gregersen H., Moody F. and Shokouh-Amiri M.H. Essentials of Experimental Surgery Gastroenterology, Harwood Academic Publishers NY, 2611-2619. 

Haeberlin, B., and Friend, D.R., Anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. In Oral Colon-Specific Drug Delivery (D.R. Friend, ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1992, pp. 1-43. 

G. Thews, E. Mutschler, and P. Vaupel, Anatomie, Physiologie, Pathophysiologie des Menschen, Gastrointestinal Tract and Digestion, Scientific Publishers, Stuttgart, 1991. 

Figure 6.1 Anatomy of the human gastrointestinal tract. From V.C.Scanlon and T.Sanders (1995) The digestive system. Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, pp. 358-385...

FIGURE 2.37 Thoracic duct and other vessels of the thorax. Lymphatic capillaries are most numerous just beneath body surfaces, such as the skin and the mucus membranes of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. The mucus membrane of the gastrointestinal tract is called the gut mucosa. The general function of these capillaries is to absorb interstitial fluid that has leaked from the circulatory system and to return it to the bloodstream. The function of the l)miphatic capillaries that end in the lacteals of the small intestine is to transport absorbed dietary lipids. These capillaries coalesce and eventually deliver their contents to the thoracic duct. The lymph collected from other parts of the body, as indicated by the "collecting trunk," also is transferred to the thoracic duct. [Redrawn with permission, from "Grant s Atlas of Anatomy," Williams Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1978.]... 

Figure 1 The anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract. (Reproduced from Smith RP (1992) The anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract. A Primer of Environmental Toxicology, p. 70. Philadelphia Lea Febiger, with permission from Lea Febiger.)...

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