It is a congenital condition, which means it is present from birth. In Hirschsprung's disease, certain types of nerve cells (ganglion cells) are missing from a part of the bowel. In areas without such ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. The capacity of cutaneous, including trigeminal endings, to detect chemicals is known as chemesthesis or ...

A 53-years old white women was presented with a four-weeks history of unsteady gait, followed by mental confusion and progressive memory loss. Neurological examination revealed axial ataxia, ...

Microelectrode recordings from sacral dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons may provide an alternate source for obtaining high quality sensory signals for bladder pressure monitoring. In this study, ...

Scientists in the U.K., Australia and China have identified a brain molecule called NEAT1 that appears to play a central role ...

Percutaneous trigeminal ganglion stimulation (TGS) has been rarely reported as a potential treatment option for alleviating pain associated with this condition. The present study investigated the ...

The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the modulation of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis. Decades of research has contributed to a better understanding of the anatomy ...

Somatosensory (primary afferent) neurons, characterized by their pseudounipolar morphology, predominantly reside in peripheral sensory ganglia-specifically the trigeminal ganglion (TG) and dorsal root ...

The skull is made up of bones and cartilage that form the face and the cranium, which surrounds the brain. You can feel the bones of the cranium on top of the skull. The 5 bones that form the bottom ...

Contributed by Andrew V. Schally, May 26, 2021 (sent for review November 26, 2019; reviewed by Larry Benowitz, Masaru Inatani, and Chunqiao Liu) ...