Innervation of the Mammalian Esophagus

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Neuhuber, W.L (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Σειρά: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 185
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

Understanding the innervation of the esophagus is a prerequisite for successful treatment of a variety of disorders, e.g., dysphagia, achalasia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and non-cardiac chest pain. Although, at first glance, functions of the esophagus are relatively simple, their neuro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Muscle layers of the esophagus
• Materials and Methods. Anterograde WGA-HRP tracing from nodose ganglion. Anterograde DiI tracing from thoracic dorsal root ganglia
• Extrinsic innervation. Vagal innervation
• Spinal innervation. Innervation of esophageal sphincters. Swallowing central pattern generator. Cortical representation of the esophagus in human
• Intrinsic innervation. General organization. Enteric coinnervation
• Functional considerations. General remarks. Cooperation between extrinsic and intrinsic systems
• Concluding remarks
• Summary
• References
• Subject Index.