Principles and clinical implications of the brain-gut-enteric microbiota axis.

[ema-adama]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19404271?ordinalpos=12&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum


Enterochromaffin cells are important bidirectional transducers that regulate communication between the gut lumen and the nervous system. Vagal, afferent innervation of enterochromaffin cells provides a direct pathway for enterochromaffin-cell signaling to neuronal circuits, which may have an important role in pain and immune-response modulation, control of background emotions and other homeostatic functions. Disruption of the bidirectional interactions between the enteric microbiota and the nervous system may be involved in the pathophysiology of acute and chronic gastrointestinal disease states, including functional and inflammatory bowel disorders.

This is gonna take me a while for me to really understand - but it looks like the gut and the brain are connected after all :p

I really wanted to read up about TV and development and have been totally side tracked now :giggle:It's addictive

[Serephina]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting these ema-adama.

[magical1]

Good on you for posting all these... it's all about the sharing that will add to this site becoming a great resource.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

It's more than gut and brain that are connected. The first question you should ask anyone with pneumonia on the lungs, is... are you constipated? I kid you not. There is a medical article on that somewhere amongst my heaps...

[ema-adama]

It would seem that being obsessed about your pooh is not that strange after all :giggle:

Yes, I am loving finding what is being published currently in medical journals. So called ground breaking discoveries that are old hat.

Back when I was a baby in the 70's - my mother was considered very weird for only dressing me in cotton and feeding me organic vegetables. 30 years later it is quite acceptable.