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. 2000 Dec;47(Suppl 4):iv60–iv62. doi: 10.1136/gut.47.suppl_4.iv60

Memory in the enteric nervous system

J Furness, N Clerc, W Kunze
PMCID: PMC1766784  PMID: 11076919

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Representation of the types of sensory neurones of the gastrointestinal tract. Extrinsic sensory neurones: some have cell bodies in the nodose ganglion, and supply the stomach through the vagus nerves, while others have cell bodies in spinal (dorsal root) ganglia, and supply the stomach, and small and large intestines. Intrinsic sensory neurones have cell bodies in the gut wall. These have only been demonstrated recently. Another type of afferent pathway, that of intestinofugal neurones, conducts sensory information from the gut to prevertebral sympathetic ganglia. The layers of the gut wall are represented: LM, CM (longitudinal and circular muscle); MP, myenteric plexus; SM, submucosa; Muc, mucosa.

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