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Embryonic Development of Motility: Lessons from the Chicken

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The Enteric Nervous System II

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I outline here the development of intestinal motility in the chicken embryo. The first contractile events are circular smooth muscle driven calcium waves (E6), that gain a clock-like regularity when interstitial cells of Cajal become electrically active (E14). Soon after longitudinal smooth muscle contractions become prominent (E14), the enteric nervous system starts controlling motility (E16) by coupling the longitudinal and circular contractions via inhibitory neurotransmission. It gives rise to circular-longitudinal antagonism, to the migrating motor complex, and to the polarized ascending contraction-descending relaxation pressure response known as the “law of the intestine”. The kinetics of gut development in the chicken appears to follow faithfully that of humans by simply converting embryonic days of chicken development into embryonic weeks of human development.

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  1. Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7057, Paris, France

    Nicolas R. Chevalier

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  3. South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Stuart M. Brierley

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Chevalier, N.R. (2022). Embryonic Development of Motility: Lessons from the Chicken. In: Spencer, N.J., Costa, M., Brierley, S.M. (eds) The Enteric Nervous System II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1383. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05843-1_10

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