The relationship between stress and gastrointestinal function is poorly understood and of major clinical importance as a potential contributor to irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia and numerous other disorders of gut–brain interaction. A recent study investigates a descending neural circuit that regulates gastric motility and is inversely modulated by chronic versus acute stress.
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Beutler, L.R. A CNS circuit that regulates gut motility. Nat Metab 5, 1452–1453 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00871-2
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