9 Ivan Pavlov Quotes on Physiology

Ivan Pavlov quotes on physiology

6. Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

11. Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

13. From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

20. Long before us it was established that the work of the salivary glands is regulated by a complex nervous apparatus.

21. Mechanical influences are completely ineffective with regard to the gastric glands.

23. Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

26. Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

27. Precise knowledge of what happens to the food entering the organism must be the subject of ideal physiology, the physiology of the future.

36. With each meal, when edible substances find their way into the oral cavity, thick and viscous saliva containing much mucus flows out of these glands.