Sentences with phrase «gut endocrine cells»

«Pre-clinical study suggests Parkinson's could start in gut endocrine cells: Protein linked to Parkinson's could spread from gut to nervous system.»

Although the main function of gut endocrine cells is to regulate digestion, the Duke researchers found these cells also have nerve - like properties.

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Many things are being secreted, which the brain sort of modulates, like the defensins from Paneth cells, there are many endocrine cells, serotonin cells in the gut, enterochromaffin cells, which are under autonomic control, so that we now know that serotonin, as well as norepinephrine, can, under stress for example, increase in the lumen of the gut.

CCHa2 immunoreactivity was also detected in endocrine cells in the gut as previously reported [20](Fig 1F).