Despite extensive (and valiant) attempts to research it, much remains a mystery about the hippo's gooey antibiotic sunscreen. Saikawa's team hypothesizes that the animal synthesizes it from amino acids (the building blocks of protein) in the presence of oxygen.
1 Gastroileal reflex is one of the ways in which gastric motility influences intestinal motility. 2  When there is vigorous gastric peristalsis of increased secretion, it stimulates peristalsis in the ileum.
1 The abnormal plantar reflex, or Babinski reflex, is the elicitation of toe extension from the wrong receptive field, that is, the sole of the foot. 2  Thus a noxious stimulus to the sole of the foot produces extension of the great toe instead of the normal flexion response. The plantar reflex is a nociceptive segmental spinal reflex that serves the purpose of protecting the sole of the foot. 2  The clinical significance lies in the fact that the abnormal response reliably indicates metabolic or structural abnormality in the corticospinal system upstream from the segmental reflex.