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The digestive tract is an important organ, whose function is to break down the food we eat into small nutrients that are absorbed and distributed to the other organs of the body.
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El-Salhy, M., Hatlebakk, J.G., Hausken, T. (2015). The Digestive Tract and How It Works. In: Understanding and Controlling the Irritable Bowel. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15642-2_2
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