Treating gut pain via a Nobel prize-winning receptor
Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new […]
Silencing gut pain without pain killers
Surgically removing specific populations of sensory nerves that communicate between internal organs, such as the bladder and gut, and the brain, can silence pain responses without […]
How the gut communicates with the brain
How the ‘second brain’ – the enteric nervous system in our gut – communicates with our first brain has been one of the most challenging questions […]
Nerve finding unravels gut mysteries
Scientists at Flinders University have, for the first time, identified a specific type of sensory nerve ending in the gut and how these may ‘talk’ to […]