Earthworms move through the soil not just by wriggling around, but by sending peristaltic waves down their bodies. A new robot, which employs that same strategy, could one day be used in underground ...

Figure 1: Genetic elimination of sensory function or structure in the Drosophila embryonic peripheral nervous system. Figure 5: Bursts of forward peristalsis but not sporadic forward waves are ...

a: The response to swallowing is marked by the mylohyoid muscle electromyogram. With primary peristalsis, note that the delay in onset of depolarization, spike burst, and esophageal contraction in the ...

Achalasia is a rare disorder where the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) fails to relax. It’s also marked by the loss of peristalsis, the muscle waves that push food down the esophagus. The root cause ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Peristalsis enables transport of the food bolus in the gut. Here, I show by dynamic ex vivo intra-cellular calcium imaging on living embryonic ...

To keep blood and oxygen flowing throughout their bodies, most animals depend on a beating heart. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on July 10 have discovered that sea spiders use a strange ...