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Winner of a 2013 Highly Commended BMA Medical Book Award for Internal Medicine

Table of Contents

VOLUME I Section I: Basic Cell Physiology, Genetics, and Growth of the GI Tract Section II: Neurogastroenterology Section III: Host Defense Mechanisms VOLUME II Section IV: Physiology of Secretion Section V: Digestion and Absorption Section VI: Consequences of Disregulated Physiology

About the Author

Leonard R. Johnson received a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Michigan and then trained with Dr. Morton I. Grossman at UCLA. He spent 17 years as a Professor of Physiology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston before moving to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as the Thomas A. Gerwin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology. He is the author or coauthor of over 250 papers on gastrointestinal physiology and holds an NIH MERIT Award. Currently he is the Vice Chancellor for Research at Tennessee.