Migrating motor complex
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Regularly occurring motor complexes are recorded in the intestine of turkeys and chickens.
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Migrating motor complex
Migrating motor complexes (or migrating myoelectric complex or migratory motor complex or migratory myoelectric complex or MMC) are waves of activity that sweep through the intestines in a regular cycle during fasting state.
These motor complexes help trigger peristaltic waves, which facilitate transportation of indigestible substances such as bone, fiber, and foreign bodies from the stomach, through the small intestine, past the ileocecal sphincter, and into the colon.
The MMC originates in the stomach roughly every 75 to 90 minutes during the interdigestive phase (between meals) and is responsible for the rumbling experienced when hungry. The MMC lasts for approximately 15 minutes.
It also serves to transport bacteria from the small intestine to the large intestine, and to inhibit the migration of colonic bacteria into the terminal ileum.
The MMC is thought to be partially regulated by motilin, which is initiated in the stomach as a response to vagal stimulation, and does not directly depend on extrinsic nerves.
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