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 ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a vast network of nerves built into the walls of the intestine. While it is well known for its role in regulating digestion and the movement of food through the ...

Known as the second brain, your gut has influence over your emotions and physical health. Housed within the enteric system that controls the digestive system, the gut works in tandem with the central ...

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 ...

Rice University neurobiologist Rosa Uribe will be hitting the books for her latest study of the digestive system, but some of the pages in her books are a billion years old. Uribe, an assistant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers 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 this 'second brain' exists at ...

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 ...