Ivan Pavlov Glands Quotations

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

So the stimulation effected by the act of eating reaches the gastric glands by means of the nerve fibres that are contained in the vagus nerves.