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**Some BER are sufficient to generate an action potential.
 
**Some BER are sufficient to generate an action potential.
 
*Food in the intestine stimulates peristalsis to occur, and increases the likelihood of an action potential occuring.
 
*Food in the intestine stimulates peristalsis to occur, and increases the likelihood of an action potential occuring.
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*'''Enteroendcrine cells''' in the crypts of the small intestine produce substances that profoundly influence GIT motility.
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**Hormones produced by enteroendocrine cells in the small intestine include; secretin; gastric inhibitory peptide; and gastrin.
    
==Lymphatics==
 
==Lymphatics==
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