A nigro-vagal motor pathway to the proximal colon

Huashan Gong^{1

2}, Weifang Rong^{1

2}

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¹ Songjiang Research Institute, Shanghai Songjiang District Central Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Huashan Gong et al. J Physiol. 2023 Nov.

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doi: 10.1113/JP285690. Epub 2023 Oct 18.

Huashan Gong^{1

2}, Weifang Rong^{1

2}

¹ Songjiang Research Institute, Shanghai Songjiang District Central Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Keywords: Parkinson's disease; dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus; gastrointestinal motility; proximal colon; substantia nigra.

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The substantia nigra modulates proximal colon tone and motility in a vagally-dependent manner in the rat.
Xing T, Nanni G, Burkholder CR, Browning KN, Travagli RA. Xing T, et al. J Physiol. 2023 Nov;601(21):4751-4766. doi: 10.1113/JP284238. Epub 2023 Sep 29. J Physiol. 2023. PMID: 37772988 Free PMC article.

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