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 ...
How does the gut microbiota impact the nervous and mucosal immune systems? The enteric nervous system (ENS) consists of two ganglionated neural networks within the gut wall known as the myenteric and ...
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. It has to break chunks down into small bits. It must ...