The brain can influence commensal organisms (enteric microbiota) indirectly, via changes in gastrointestinal motility and secretion, and intestinal permeability, or directly, via signaling ...

A pediatric study has reported an improvement in clinical symptoms of constipation following erythromycin administration, but the effect on colon motility in children has not been formally evaluated.

Having an irregular gut rhythm compromises our bowel motility [the movement of food and waste through the digestive system] ...

In addition to the major liver flukes, Opisthorchis viverrini and Clonorchis sinensis, several types of intestinal flukes ... Objective: To examine the motility of Haplorchinae spp metacercariae ...

His research training included a research fellowship at McMaster University Medical Centre, Ontario, Canada, 1985-86 where he pursued research into colonic motility and the irritable bowel syndrome.