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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how the enteric nervous system forms, which could pave the way for new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Scientists ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS), also referred to as the “second brain,” is a web of sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons embedded in the wall of the gastrointestinal system, stretching ...

Out of all the organs in the body, the gastrointestinal tract is the only organ to have evolved its only fully independent nervous system. That’s why this tract, which stretches from the mouth to the ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. From the moment you swallow a bite of food to the moment it exits your body, the gut is toiling to process this strange outside material ...

Translucent zebrafish embryos have been used to create a single-cell atlas of the cells that lead to the development of the enteric nervous system: enhancing our ability to tackle debilitating and ...

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 ...