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Review
. 2000 Dec;47 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):iv15-9; discussion iv26.
doi: 10.1136/gut.47.suppl_4.iv15.

Anatomy and physiology of the enteric nervous system

M Costa  1 , S J Brookes, G W Hennig
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Review

Anatomy and physiology of the enteric nervous system

M Costa et al. Gut. 2000 Dec.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Classes of myenteric neurones. LM, longitudinal muscle; CM, circular muscle; MP, myenteric plexus; SMP, submucous plexus; AN, ascending neurones; IN, intestinofugal neurones; DIN, descending interneurones; EPAN, enteric primary afferent neurones; EMN, excitatory motorneurones; IMN, inhibitory motorneurones; LMMN, longitudinal motorneurones. The secretomotor and vasomotor neurones in the myenteric and submucous plexuses are not labelled (modified from Costa and colleagues6).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Polarised enteric motor pathways involved in control of intestinal motor activity. ACh, acetylcholine; TK, tachykinins; NO, nitric oxide; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; VIP, vasoactive intestinal peptide; PACAP, pituitary activating cyclic AMP peptide; P2X, subclass of purinergic receptors.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Modular organisation of the enteric nervous system with repeated and overlapping circumferential, ascending, and descending neural pathways. AI, ascending pathways; DI, descending pathways.
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