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Chapter 7
Concluding remarks
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The digestive tract is exposed to a large variety of chemical and physical stimuli from the external world in the form of ingested materials that represent a rich and varied environment. The brain receives information from this enclosed environment via afferent pathways. However, while the brain receives strong and definite sensory input from the external environment, it normally receives similar strong and definite inputs only from the two ends of the digestive tract. What …