Novel Transmitters in Brain Stem Vagal Neurocircuitry: New Players on the Pitch

Overview

Journal Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol

Publisher American Physiological Society

Specialties Gastroenterology
Physiology

Date 2018 Mar 31

PMID 29597355

Authors

Mehmet Bulbul

R Alberto Travagli

Affiliations

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Abstract

The last few decades have seen a major increase in the number of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides recognized as playing a role in brain stem neurocircuits, including those involved in homeostatic functions such as stress responsiveness, gastrointestinal motility, feeding, and/or arousal/wakefulness. This minireview will focus on the known physiological role of three of these novel neuropeptides, i.e., apelin, nesfatin-1, and neuropeptide-S, with a special emphasis on their hypothetical roles in vagal signaling related to gastrointestinal motor functions.

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