Food digestion in Ivan Petrovich Pavlov studies on 115 anniversary of his Nobel Prize and present avenues

Abstract

Story of Pavlov’s studies on food digestion including his Nobel Prize in 1904 are presented. Some new ideas and concepts are also viewed based on 3th International Conference on Food Digestion held in Wageningen (the Netherlands) in 2014.

Keywords

• food digestion
• fistulas
• saliva
• gastric juice
• pancreatic juice
• intestinal juice
• conditioned and non-conditioned biological reflexes
• enzymes