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.
The plantar reflex is a reflex elicited when the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt instrument.The reflex can take one of two forms. In normal adults the plantar reflex causes a downward response of the hallux (flexion).An upward response (extension) of the hallux is known as the Koch sign, or as the Babinski response or Babinski sign, named after the neurologist Joseph Babinski.he plantar reflex is a reflex elicited when the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt instrument.