The aim of the project is to generate a peptidomics map of gut hormone peptides along the gastrointestinal tract, starting with the stomach and including the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, colon and rectum. The tissues would be collected after surgery and the peptide fraction extracted and anlysed by nano LC-MS to identify what peptide hormones are present. These data will then be used to compare against the murine transcriptome, and also for comparison against equivent peptides from human intestinal extracts.