Injury to the enteric nervous system (ENS) can cause several gastrointestinal (GI) disorders including achalasia, irritable bowel syndrome, and gastroparesis. Recently, a subpopulation of enteric ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is integrated in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract and has a strategic role in regulating intestinal motility, secretion and blood 1,2,3. It comprises a complex ...

Psittacine neuropathic gastric dilatation was studied in four cockatoos (Cacatua spp.). The birds died with characteristic clinical signs, and post-mortem examination revealed a highly distended ...

Abstract: The intraluminal pressures and traction forces associated with the migrating motor complex are well understood; however, the contact forces directly exerted by the bowel wall on a solid, or ...

Background Idiopathic achalasia (IA) is characterised by the degeneration of neurons in the myenteric plexus leading to an ...