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physics.bio-ph2025
The enteric nervous system is 10 times stiffer than the brain
Nicolas R. Chevalier, Alexis Peaucelle, Thomas Guilbert +2
Neural tissues of the central nervous system are among the softest and most fragile in the human body, protected from mechanical perturbation by the skull and the spine. In contras…
physics.bio-ph2019★ 33 cited
The first digestive movements in the embryo are mediated by mechanosensitive smooth muscle calcium waves
Nicolas Chevalier
Peristalsis enables transport of the food bolus in the gut. Here, I show by dynamic ex-vivo intra-cellular calcium imaging on living embryonic gut transverse sections that the most…