Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States Telocytes, a novel mesenchymal cell population, are characterized by ...

This study investigates the impact of myenteric neuron-macrophage interactions on postoperative trauma and subsequent motility disturbances, i.e., postoperative ileus. Gut surgical trauma activates ...

Colonic peristalsis that promotes defecation is controlled by several subtypes of enteric neurons that reside in the myenteric plexus that is located between the longitudinal and circular muscles of ...

Microvessels in the muscularis externa with myenteric plexus were less dense than in the mucosa and formed loops. In the circular smooth muscle layer, microvessels were distributed in the proximal, ...