After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis—moving food through their hollow interiors with ...

Enterin’s efforts center on the enteric nervous system (ENS), perhaps the major sensory organ of the brain. While the brain pulls in information from the eyes, ears and other sense organs ...

Recent research reveals how spinal health may influence the gut-brain connection, offering new perspectives on managing depression and stress through chiropractic care.

A new study published in Sports Medicine and Health Science suggests that defecation may improve cognitive performance in ...

After several attempts, the team succeeded at incorporating its primitive nervous system into the intestinal tissue, even inducing the enteric nerve precursor cells and intestinal cells to grow in ...

Motor endplates were associated with enteric nerve fibers in all species investigated, although the rates of co-innervation varied from approximately 10 to 20% in shrew, antelope, he-goat ...

GI function can be regulated by complicate signals from luminal nutrients/microbiome, body energy/metabolic status, gut immune activity, and central/enteric nerve system. The rapid turnover rate of ...