Ördög, Tamás, Doug Redelman, Nancy N. Horowitz, and Kenton M. Sanders. Immunomagnetic enrichment of interstitial cells of Cajal. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 286: G351–G360, 2004. First published October 16, 2003; 10.1152/ajpgi.00281.2003.—Disruptions of networks of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), gastrointestinal pacemakers and mediators of neurotransmission, can lead to disorder...

Article: Bone marrow derived Kit-positive cells colonize the gut but fail to restore pacemaker function in intestines lacking interstitial cells of Cajal CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduc...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, researchers have been working to improve the understanding of gastrointestinal motility. The first major discovery was the observation of a migrating myoelectric complex that turned out to be a universal occurrence among vertebrates. Further inquires resulted in a detailed description of its development during different stages of ontogeny. Some time befo...

BACKGROUND Cellular changes associated with diabetic (DG) and idiopathic gastroparesis (IG) have recently been described from patients enrolled in the Gastroparesis Clinical Research Consortium. The association of these cellular changes with gastroparesis symptoms and gastric emptying is unknown. The aim of this study was to relate cellular changes to symptoms and gastric emptying in patients w...