A breakthrough single-cell enteric nervous atlas charts how microbes and allergic inflammation can rewire neuronal and intestinal function—paving the way for a new generation of neuron-targeting ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team ...

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 ...

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

A research team, led by Professor Alan Wong Siu-lun (third left), Professor Leung Suet-yi (third right) and Professor Helen Yan Hoi-ning (second left), has revealed that nerves in the digestive system ...