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XIVth Little Brain Big Brain: next-generation enteric neuroscience

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Little Brain Big Brain has been a biannual meeting organized and attended exclusively by young investigators in neurogastroenterology since 1989. The XIVth meeting featured cutting-edge work advancing several novel hypotheses in the main themes of motility, inflammation and metabolism.

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Acknowledgements

The XIVth LBBB was supported by Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease R13 Award, the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, the European Society of Neurogastroenterology & Motility, the Australasian Neurogastroenterology & Motility Association, Takeda, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, Biocodex and Bio-Techne. We would also like to acknowledge the mentorship of D. Linden and S. Gibbons (Mayo Clinic, Rochester).

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Enteric Neuroscience Program, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, 55905, Minnesota, USA

    Arthur Beyder

  2. The John B. Pierce Laboratory/Cellular and Molecular Physiology Department, Yale Medical School, 290 Congress Ave, New Haven, 06519, Connecticut, USA

    Guillaume de Lartigue

  3. Department of Immunology, Internal Medicine Section of Gastroenterology, University of Manitoba, Apotex Centre 431, 750 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, R3E 0T5, Manitoba, Canada

    Jean-Eric Ghia

  4. Division of Digestive Diseases, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 675 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, 90095, California, USA

    Jill M. Hoffman

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Beyder, A., de Lartigue, G., Ghia, JE. et al. XIVth Little Brain Big Brain: next-generation enteric neuroscience. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 14, 135–136 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2016.199

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