Abstract
Inaugurating a new policy, the editors have asked this reviewer to limit his coverage of the past year's output in gastrointestinal physiology to the motor function of the digestive tract. Of course, this is a recognition not only of the rapidly increasing amount of literature in the field of gastroin testinal physiology, but also of the increasing complexity of investigative techniques that makes it less and less possible for one man to encompass the various disciplines of gastrointestinal physiology. To point out the vast gap between the investigator interested in the biochemistry of mucoproteins in intestinal mucus and the one interested in the electrical activity of intestinal smooth muscle is merely stressing the obvious. In the area of mechanical transport which is, on the surface, highly specialized, strong interdisciplinary barriers are already well established. The budding discipline of cineradiog raphy and the field of electrophysiology of intestinal smooth muscle have very little language in common. Indeed, the day does not appear far off when the boundaries established by such a review chapter will be determined no longer by organ physiology but by methodology.
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