Peristalsis describes the involuntary wave of muscle contractions that happen naturally in your digestive tract. This automatic bodily function physically moves food and drink through your body ...

Plums, long lauded for their laxative properties, often play second fiddle to sexier summer fruits like cherries, berries, ...

Food passes down the throat to the esophagus, the first of a succession of hollow organs that transport their contents through muscular contractions known as peristalsis. The esophagus empties ...

The subject swallows a mouthful of barium sulfate, which is then propelled down the esophagus and into the stomach by a peristaltic contraction wave.

In a pioneering new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and a common yellow food coloring called tartrazine ...

Since women can live 40% of their lives after menopause, you might as well enter this period feeling as good as you possibly can.

Heart Rate Increase in rate of contraction of cardiac muscle - cardiac output increases Decrease in rate of contraction of cardiac muscle - cardiac output decreases Breathing Rate Smooth muscle of ...

Through the transparent skin of the skull, researchers directly observed blood vessels on the surface of the brain. In the abdomen, they observed internal organs and peristalsis, the muscle ...

IN THE last two years several new antibiotics have become available. Three of these, — aureomycin, chloramphenicol and terramycin, — affect a wide range of bacteria and, since they are ...

The study, titled ‘Achieving Optical Transparency in Live Animals with Absorbing Molecules’ was published in the journal ...