A leading gut-health researcher explains how your gastrointestinal microbiome communicates with your brain. “There’s a connection from the enteric nervous system in the gut to the central nervous ...

Researchers at Michigan State University have made a surprising discovery about the human gut's enteric nervous system that itself is filled with surprising facts. For starters, there's the fact that ...

In recent years enteric glial cells have moved on from being regarded as bit part players passively supporting intestinal epithelial cells, to being recognized as having a fundamental role in ...

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 ...

University of Calgary researchers designed a novel imaging and experimental preparation system, allowing them to record the activity of the enteric nervous system in mice. The new technique allows ...

A research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has made a breakthrough in gastric cancer research, revealing how the "second brain"—nerves in the digestive ...

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 ...

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