Your vagus nerve is the tenth cranial nerve, which serves as your body’s major parasympathetic nerve. It helps to slow your heart rate, control gag reflex, allow involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles of your gut, control sweating, regulate blood pressure, and control vascular t...
However, no one knows its organizing principles—whether or not there are dedicated neurons with restricted targets that act as “labeled lines” to perform certain functions, including two opposing ones (gastric contraction versus relaxation). By performing unbiased transcriptional profiling of DMV ...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article Intestinal Microbiome in Irritable Bowel Syndrome before and after Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Johannes Peter 1,*, Camille Fournier 1, Bettina Keip 1, Nina Rittershaus 1, Nicola Stephanou-Rieser 1, Marija Durdevic 2, Clemens Dejaco 1 , Maria ...
Hypnosis elicits a state of relaxation, which is associated with a number of physiological changes, such as reduced heart rate, altered blood flow, metabolism, and brain activity [38,39]. It involves the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis, which is linked to the gastrointestinal tract by ...
NO can induce smooth muscle relaxation and impair gastrointestinal motility [61]. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is a key enzyme in the synthesis of the inhibitory neurotransmitter nitric oxide (NO). Previous studies have shown that the main component of ATTF, (−)-epicatechin, prevents...