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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Gastric peristalsis begins in the orad corpus and propagates to the pylorus. Directionality of peristalsis depends upon orderly generation and propagation of electrical slow waves and a frequency gradient...
Smooth muscle layers of the gastrointestinal tract consist of a heterogeneous population of cells that include enteric neurons, several classes of interstitial cells of mesenchymal origin, a variety of immune...
Sanders KM, Salter AK, Hennig GW, Koh SD, Perrino BA, Ward SM, Baker SA
KMID: 2381169
J Neurogastroenterol Motil.
2014 Apr;20(2):171-184.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) play important functions in motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract. The role of ICC as pacemakers is well established, however their participation in neurotransmission...
McCann CJ, Hwang SJ, Hennig GW, Ward SM, Sanders KM
KMID: 2381191
J Neurogastroenterol Motil.
2014 Jul;20(3):326-337.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Several motility disorders are associated with disruption of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), which provide important functions, such as pacemaker activity, mediation of neural inputs and responses to stretch...