Caltech study helps explain the gut-brain connection

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Caltech study helps explain the gut-brain connection
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"Your adrenaline goes up and your glucose level in the blood is really high because you need to fight or flight," Oka says. "It turned out that digestive-related function are controlled by one major cell type, and another class of neuron is involved in gut motility," Oka says. Although the study was limited to signals traveling from the brain to the gut, Duca says, other research suggests that specialized neurons also help send information in the other direction.

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