"The enteric nervous system controls most aspects of bowel function ... Gene therapy ameliorates bowel dysmotility, enteric neuron degeneration and extends survival in lysosomal storage disorder ...

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in ... the lifespan of the mice by preventing enteric neuron degeneration. The findings, published ...

Enterin’s efforts center on the enteric nervous system (ENS), perhaps the major ... administered compound that targets the enteric neuron, displacing α-S from intracellular membrane-binding ...

Lead study author Daniel Mucida, an immunologist at The Rockefeller University and HHMI investigator, and his colleagues had recently observed that Salmonella infection triggers long-term enteric ...

The motor function of the gut is controlled by the extrinsic sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers and by the intrinsic nervous system, a vast enteric brain with approximately the same number of ...