A healthy digestive tract is the key to good health. The digestive process is complex and the digestive tract is designed to ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. The enteric nervous system (ENS), a distinctive and intricate compartment of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), is characterized ...

ABSTRACT: The role of gut microbiome in human health is important because it stimulates the immune system and protects the body from toxic food compounds and pathogenic organisms. Food and nutrition, ...

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute researchers have uncovered a previously unknown pattern of intestinal contractions in developing mouse embryos. The new findings shed light on the earliest development ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

This means new ways of intervening when it comes to conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. “The gut’s nervous system has been historically difficult to access, and we show here not only that ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – The President of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, Dr. Sherry McAllister, joined Bloom to share powerful insights on how optimizing your nervous system can transform your ...

There is such a specialized, complex network of neurons serving the gut that it is sometimes referred to as out second brain. This gastrointestinal nervous system, also known as the enteric nervous ...

GI infections cause billions of illnesses and more than 1.7 million deaths globally each year, disproportionately affecting young children, older adults, and immunocompromised people i. In the United ...

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Science, "Regional encoding of enteric nervous system ...