Musings on the wanderer: What's new in our understanding of vago-vagal reflexes? I. Morphology and topography of vagal afferents innervating the GI tract

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 283, Issue 6 46-6, 2002, Pages

  Powley, Terry L ^a,b   Phillips, Robert J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoreceptors; Mechanoreceptors; Transduction; Vagus; Visceral afferents

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY CELL; ARTICLE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOPOGRAPHY; VAGUS REFLEX;

EID: 0036890074     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00249.2002     Document Type: Article

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