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Esophageal sensory physiology

Jyoti N. Sengupta

GI Motility online (2006)

doi:10.1038/gimo16

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Figure 1

Schematic diagram of vagal and spinal nerve supply to the esophagus.

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Figure 2

Confocal photomicrograph of anterogradely labeled intraganglionic laminar ending (IGLE) in the proximal striated part of the esophagus of the rat.

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Confocal photomicrograph of a vagal intramuscular arrays (IMA) nerve terminal in a tangential section of the lower esophageal sphincter of a rat.

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Figure 4

Intensity-dependent response of a vagal afferent fiber to graded esophageal distention (ED, 5–80 mmHg, 30 seconds).

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Figure 5

Comparison of mechanosensitive properties of vagal and spinal afferent fibers innervating the esophagus of opossum (Didelphis virginiana).

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Figure 6

Response of a vagal distention-sensitive afferent fiber to graded esophageal distention (ED) before and after acid infusion.

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Transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1)–like immunoreactivity (TRPV1–IR) in rat nodose ganglia.

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Figure 8

Effect of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) open channel blocker memantine hydrochloride on mechanotransduction property of an esophageal vagal afferent fiber innervating the esophagus of rat.

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Figure 9

Response characteristics of mucosal mechanosensitive afferent fibers.

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Responses of a distention-responsive upper cervical (C2) spinal neuron having convergent inputs from the cervical and thoracic esophagus.

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Figure 11

Typical firing patterns of three types of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius centralis (NTSc) region receiving synaptic input from the vagal afferent fibers.

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