Muscle weakness and incoordination in the pharyngeal phase Although the tongue provides most of the force for moving the bolus into the esophagus, muscles in the pharyngeal group contract in an aboral ...

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GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL breathing, first described by Dail 1 in 1951, is a technic for ventilating the lungs that does not require the use of the muscles of respiration. Instead, the muscles of the mouth and ...

Swallowing may seem like a simple maneuver, but it actually involves the careful coordination of 50 pairs of muscles, many nerves, the larynx (voice box), and your esophagus. They all must work ...

This press release is available in German. Researchers in the group of Ralf Sommer at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, have for the first time been able to ...

DALLAS – April 4, 2006 – In research that may have implications for studying eating disorders in humans, a worm the size of a pinhead is helping researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center unravel ...