To regulate digestion, the neurons in the intestine sense the mechanical pressures caused by the passage of food. A team from ...

Additionally, historical theories propose that the enteric nervous system—a network of neurons embedded in the gut—could function as a “first brain” that evolved before the central nervous ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we respond to stress, how we cope with anxiety and fear, and how we create ...

There’s also the Enteric nervous system, a mesh-like system of neurons that governs the function of the gastrointestinal tract, often nicknamed our ‘second brain’. Join six world-leading ...

Figure 1: Expression of cellular prion protein and its mRNA in neurons and glial cells of ... in the spread of infectivity before central nervous system invasion are essential.

die soon after birth sharing the phenotype of kidney agenesis and an absence of many parasympathetic and enteric neurons [1-3]. These animals also have defects in the motor, sensory, and sympathetic ...