Neural stem transplant may stir gut wall
Neural stem cells survive within the pyloric wall following transplantation, possibly by responding to the enteric neurotrophin GDNF.
Sep 17, 2001
Gastrointestinal motility disorders such as achalasia, congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, and Hirschsprung's disease are characterized by complete or partial irreversible loss of nitric oxide–producing neurons in the myenteric plexus of the gut. In October
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These results suggest transplantation of CNS-NSC cells...