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 ...
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...