For upper level college students in physiology, graduate students, and medical students beginning training in gastroenterology. Contributions principles of ion and water transport across epithelia; macromolecular synthesis, storage, and secretion; stimulus-secretion coupling; control of gastric secretion and of the exocrine pancreas; hepatobiliary secretion; small intestine absorption and secretion of fluid and electrolytes; control of intestine secretion, gastrointestinal mucus; and gastrointestinal motor activity and secretion. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.