[Circahoral rhythms of the skin biopotentials outside of digestion and their relationship to the periodic motility of the gastrointestinal tract].

Circahoral rhythms of the skin surface potentials recorded simultaneously with periodic motor activity of stomach in 4 dogs and 7 healthy subjects revealed the rhythms to be an electrophysiological equivalent of the latter in dogs. A "migration" of the group potentials in a certain spatial-temporal sequence was observed among the leads. It corresponded to the cycles of periodic motor activity of the stomach in dogs. The circahoral rhythms are a major topic for research in humans, too.