11. Six healthy female subjects were fasted overnight, and on the morning of the trial ingested the radiolabelled test meal. 12. For the six hours after the test meal, the subjects were instructed to remain quiet. 13. They were swallowed half an hour before the ingestion of the test meal. 14. Images of the fed patterns after the ingestion of a test meal showed good separation of solid and liquid particulate matter and mixing waves in the gastric body. 15. In gall bladder filling after a test meal, V r e s reflects maximum gall bladder volume. 16. Clinicians must take into account the nature of the test meal used when results are correlated with clinical features. 17. All received the standard semisolid test meal. 18. Rates of gastric emptying vary enormously in the same individual depending on the nature of the test meal studied. 19. No APGPR was detected in any of the serum samples from the three morbidly obese patients while fasted or after the test meal. |