Seminar Details
Seminar Title:
Modeling GI Motility: Insights into Bile Salt Effects on Gastric Carcinoma Dynamics
Seminar Type:
Departmental Seminar
Department:
Biotechnology and Medical Engineering
Speaker Name:
Prof. Ravi Kant Avvari (1201377)
Speaker Type:
Faculty
Venue:
BM Department Seminar Room
Date and Time:
31 Jan 2025 03:00 PM
Contact:
Dr. Nivedita Patra
Abstract:
Gastrointestinal (GI) motility plays a crucial role in the digestion and absorption of nutrients. In the context of gastric carcinoma, understanding how bile salts affect motility and transit dynamics is essential for improving patient care and therapeutic approaches. This modeling aims to elucidate the interactions between bile salts, motility patterns, and tumor dynamics.
Bile salts play a key role in the digestion, especially the metabolism of the fatty components of the meal by allowing for emulsifying large fat droplets into micelles. The process is chemically driven, however to facilitate the higher rate of digestion, the small intestinal peristalsis comes at a significant advantage by reducing the kinetic of the rate reaction and accelerating the process of micelle formation in the duodenum. This increases the surface area of enzymatic cleavage by lipases and digestion of fat.
The process is dynamic and requires the coordination of the antral, pyloric and duodenal motility to regulation of flow across the stomach and the duodenum. By considering the bile salt components as reactive species, a reaction-diffusion transport model is developed to assess the role of peristalsis in the bile salt metabolism and transit. The lubrication approximation of the flow is developed by considering power-law model of the fluid. The transport of the bile salt and the derivatives was quantified for various duodenal motility patterns by considering the following peristalsis parameters – elementary contraction (APW, RPW, SW), wavelength, velocity and occlusion of the wave, and frequency of the contraction. Results of the bile transport are presented for the duodenal peristalsis and its impact on the kinetics leading to the probable pathology of gastric carcinoma.
Keywords: Bile salts, Bile Reflux; Duodenogastric Reflux; Peristalsis; Duodenal Peristalsis; Small Intestinal Motility; Lubrication theory; Fluid Dynamics.