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Presence of intramucosal neuroglial cells in normal and aganglionic human colon.
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is composed of neural crest-derived neurons (also known as ganglion cells) the cell bodies of which are located in the submucosal and myenteric plexuses of the intestinal wall. Intramucosal ganglion cells are known to exist but are rare and often considered ectopic. Also derived from the neural crest are enteric glial cells that populate the ganglia and the asso...
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Differences in the release and content of acetylcholine and the alpha 2 adrenoceptor mediated interaction between noradrenergic and cholinergic neurons were investigated by neurochemical and pharmacological methods in aganglionic and ganglionic segments of isolated human colon taken from children suffering from Hirschsprung's disease. Both at rest and during transmural stimulation the release o...
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Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the USA. Intestinal malrotation diagnosed in adulthood was, until recently, a very rare phenomenon. While patients may present with intestinal obstruction or abdominal pain, the diagnosis is now often made as an incidental finding by computed tomography (CT). Surprisingly we found only seven case reports of carcinoma of the colon in patients with ...
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Hirschsprung's disease, a congenital condition resulting in functional intestinal obstruction, was seen in 21 children at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) between January 1996 and December 1998. Late presentation of patients to hospital was observed and was attributed to ignorance and poverty. Patients presented only when repeated herbal enemas no longer offered relief. The ma...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-196601000-00015