Considering that the myenteric plexus is exposed to various injuries throughout life ... The effect was specific to the distal colon since no neuronal loss was found in the proximal colon. In addition ...

Aims: In this study we investigated transmitter co-localisation in myenteric neurones of normal colon and the colon of patients with ... methods in whole mounts of colonic myenteric plexus of UC ...

In elderly ascending, not descending, colon numbers of cell bodies exhibiting choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity increased compared with adults (5.0±0.6 vs 2.4±0.3 neurons/mm myenteric plexus, ...

Colon cancer rates for people under age 50 are going up across countries both rich and poor. In the US, rates for older adults are declining, while early-onset colon cancer is on the rise ...

A healthy colon is a marvelously effective organ that squeezes nutrients and water out of food while pumping out waste. But sometimes small clumps of abnormal cells grow on the colon’s lining ...

The area of the soma, cytoplasm, and the nucleus of 300 neurons of the myenteric plexus of the terminal ileum and the descending colon (uniformly distributed all over the intestinal circumference) of ...

The solar plexus, which is sometimes called the celiac plexus, is comprised of numerous nerve fibers that radiate out from the center of your abdominal area. These nerves help keep your abdominal ...

The myenteric plexus is present between the longitudinal and circular smooth muscle layers of the muscularis externa, whereas the submucosal plexus is located below the muscularis mucosa.

In this study our aim was to determine if noradrenergic (post-ganglionic sympathetic) nerve terminals target specific neurons in the myenteric plexus of the human colon and compare this to ...

Transanal Soave pullthrough was performed and at the intraoperative evaluation the absence of ganglion cells in the submucosal and myenteric plexus of the rectum and sigmoid colon confirmed the length ...