Taken into consideration with existing knowledge, it appears likely that vertebrate hearts have a more sophisticated 'brain' ...

Hui Feng, MD, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics and medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received an RO1 grant from the National ...

Scientists have identified two types of brain cells in the abdomen that appear to control different aspects of digestion.

Brain cells are increasingly being found outside the brain, and now researchers have identified specific neurons in the abdomen that control some aspects of digestion.

Brain cells are increasingly being found outside the brain, and now researchers have identified specific neurons in the abdomen that control some aspects of digestion.

The ganglion then distributes nerve fibers to several branches of the facial nerve ... The nerve then enters the pterygoid canal and joins the deep petrosal nerve, which is a sympathetic nerve (it ...

This month's cover highlights the article A novel bacterial effector protein mediates ER-LD membrane contacts to regulate host lipid droplets by Stacey D. Gilk, Rajendra Angara and Arif Sadi. The ...

The motor function of the gut is controlled by the extrinsic sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers and by the intrinsic nervous system, a vast enteric brain with approximately the same number of ...