Physiology - A calcium window to the gut

被引:8
作者
Hirst, GDS [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Melbourne, Dept Zool, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia
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10.1038/19851
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Food is moved through the gut by an ordered process that depends on a balance between signals from neurons and those from non-neuronal pacemaker cells. By studying what happens at the molecular level over whole sections of the colon, one group has now found clues to how this balance is achieved.
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