Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

Synchronizing vagus nerve stimulation with natural body rhythms, such as the heartbeat and breathing, significantly improves its effectiveness.

During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology may originate in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse ...

The study proposes the immune system as a major regulator of blood sugar. The functions of hormones like insulin and glucagon ...

The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...

Findings suggest targeting neuro-immune pathway could lead to strategies for managing diabetes, obesity or some types of ...

We thought this was all being regulated in the liver because that's where glucagon exerts its function ... nervous system, we can better appreciate how these daily life activities support metabolic ...

The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. It consists of nerves that carry information between the central nervous system and the ...

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

“The enteric nervous system controls most aspects of bowel function,” said Heuckeroth. “We believe this work shows for the first time that a serious disease of the enteric nervous system can ...