The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a vast network of nerves built into the walls of the intestine. While it is well known ...

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 ...

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Your stomach is actually most active when it is empty.

A mutation previously linked to skin disorders like psoriasis may also play a surprising role in gut health, according to new research published by scientists at VIB-UGent and colleagues from UGent, ...

MIT scientists have found that an amino acid called cysteine can help the gut heal itself. In mouse studies, a cysteine-rich ...

Jacqueline Hernandez, Florida International University and Cristina Palacios, Florida International University You’ve likely ...

Researchers have identified Limosilactobacillus mucosae and Ligilactobacillus ruminis as human gut bacteria capable of ...

A novel treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is on the horizon, with the discovery that two specific gut microbes ...

Scientists that won an infamous 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To measure the expression levels of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in the duodenal bulb mucosa of patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) and to ...