Enterogastric reflex
Reflex inhibiting stomach emptying
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Through Gastrointestinal tract and Hydrogen chloride
Emptying inhibitory factors
The stomach's contents are inhibited from emptying into the small intestine by:
- duodenal distension
- duodenal acidic pH
- duodenal hypertonicity
- increased osmolarity of gastric chyme
- sympathetic stimulation
- intense pain
- Cholecystokinin, Secretin, Vasoactive intestinal peptide
- Nitric oxide, somatostatin from D cells
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Emptying stimulatory factors
The stomach's contents empty through the pylorus, allowing digestion to proceed, when there is:
- parasympathetic stimulation
- increased volume and fluidity of gastric contents
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