[Electric activity of striated muscles of the cervical part of the rabbit esophagus under conditions of hunger, food intake and satiation].

The experiments of free-moving rabbits have shown that the muscles of the proximal zone in the esophageal cervical part functions as the superior esophageal sphincter. In hunger stage the motor unit activity of the sphincter has regular low-amplitude discharge with monomodal distribution of interspike intervals. The process of food satisfaction leads to the appearance of burst-like unit activity with bimodal distribution of interspike intervals. During the food intake reorganization of the motor unit activity of the esophageal cervical part is manifested in characteristic patterns of interspike interval distribution.