Enteric Nervous System
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"Although numerous books and articles have recently talked about the gut instincts as valuable in giving us useful hunches in the decision-making process, "What's Behind Your Belly Button?" goes much further and explains how gut feelings... more
Background: Hirschsprung disease is a functional obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract due to the congenital absence of ganglion cells in the intermyenteric plexuses of the distal bowel. Gastrointestinal motility requires intact... more
The gastrointestinal system can be considered the gateway for food entry in our body. Rather than being a passive player, it is now clear that gut strongly influence the feeding behavior and contribute to maintain energy balance with... more
This work was done for someone who teaches a method of gut-oriented mindful breathing: Wolfgang (Wilf) Schareck. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilf-schareck-89359312/?originalSubdomain=ca
Neurotransmitters including catecholamines and serotonin play a crucial role in maintaining homeostasis in the human body. Studies on these neurotransmitters mainly revolved around their role in the "fight or flight" response,... more
"Love, S. (2008). Healing the trauma of the body/mind split through accessing instinctual gut feelings: A protocol for facilitating the somatic reflection process (SRP). Somatics Magazine-Journal of The Mind/Body Arts and Sciences, Volume... more
Using an embryoid body (EB) culture system, we developed a functional organ-like cluster--a "gut"--from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells (ES gut). Each ES gut exhibited spontaneous contractions but did not exhibit distinct... more
The research for this paper was carried out for Wolfgang "Wilf" Schareck, who teaches a gut-oriented method of breathing and mindfulness.
Acetylcholine (ACh) is critical in controlling epithelial ion transport and hence water movements for gut hydration. Here we review the mechanism of cholinergic control of epithelial ion transport across the mammalian intestine. The... more
Morphological studies have shown synaptic-like structures between enteric nerve terminals and interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) in mouse and guinea pig gastrointestinal tracts. Functional studies of mice lacking certain classes of ICC... more
Intestinal inflammation is associated with enteric nervous system alterations, at both inflamed and noninflamed sites. The perception of stimuli from the GI tract is enhanced during inflammatory conditions, but it is unknown whether... more
Light (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) were used to investigate the structural relationship between enteric nerves and the population of immune cells in the mouse small bowel. By LM, the osmium-zinc iodide procedure was used for... more
Robert W. Sterling has written the following essay with contributions by Martha Char Love exploring the process of human learning and the two human brains or centers of intelligence—head (thinking, CNS) and gut (feeling, ENS) brains, as... more