Ghrelin, appetite, and gastric motility: the emerging role of the stomach as an endocrine organ.

These agents may also cause a decrease in gastric motility, responsible for the common side-effect of nausea, and is probably the mechanism by which weight loss occurs.

In motor control it contributes to hand and eye motor movement, swallowing, gastric motility, and speech articulation.

This in turn inhibits gastric motility and secretion of gastric acid (HCl).

The GJ-tube is used widely in individuals with severe gastric motility, high risk of aspiration, or an inability to feed into the stomach.

Segmentation contractions (or movements) are a type of gastric motility.

Such a mechanism is similar to decreased gastric and bowel motility once gastric contents have passed through.

For example, damage to the nerves of the gastrointestinal tract makes it harder to move food during digestion (decreased gastric motility).

Treatments for reduced gastric motility include:

Medications that increase gastric motility (such as Reglan)