在一项新的研究中，来自加州大学旧金山分校、北京大学、南澳大利亚健康与医学研究所和阿德莱德大学的研究人员发现某些称为肠嗜铬细胞（enterochromaffin, EC）的肠道细胞通过检测有害刺激并释放大量影响神经与大脑沟通的神经递质，在疼痛中发挥着比以前认为的更重要的作用。由此产生的疼痛信号在初始触发后可能会持续很长时间，这可能会导致 肠易激综合征 ...

A global research collaboration has revealed how certain gut cells switch on pain signals, which can linger long after the ...

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific ...

Fasting plasma concentrations of chromogranin A, an indirect measure of enterochromaffin cell mass, were significantly higher at weeks 8 and 12 in individuals who received esomeprazole than in ...

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An international team of researchers has uncovered how certain gut cells activate pain signals, which can persist long after ...

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Serotonergic enterochromaffin cells of the intestine exhibit distinct sensory, secretory and physiological properties depending on their location within the complex crypt–villus architecture of ...

Methods and results: Mice were treated with chronic restraint stress. A double-labelling approach was taken to localise CRH expression in immune cells (including dendritic cells, mast cells, ...