Figure 9 - Peristalsis in striated muscle portion of the esophagus.


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Physiology of esophageal motility

Hiroshi Mashimo and Raj K. Goyal

GI Motility online (2006)

doi:10.1038/gimo3

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Note that swallow (stimulus)-induced peristalsis is due to sequential activation of lower motor neurons in the nucleus ambiguus in the brainstem. When the peripheral end of the decentralized vagus nerve is electrically stimulated (VS), all segments of the esophagus contract simultaneously.

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