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Enteroceptors

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The Peripheral Nervous System

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Nervous afferent end organs have been identified in all the viscera, and a complete catalog would be long. They have been studied chiefly by two techniques: histological portrayal, and recording of action potentials from the nerve fibers attached to the endings. For most viscera, there are separate lists of histological appearances and of patterns of fiber activity, without correlation of the two. The reflex actions of different types of receptors have also been extensively studied, but again it is not always possible to collate the reflex with the mediating receptor and its nerve fiber.

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Widdicombe, J.G. (1974). Enteroceptors. In: Hubbard, J.I. (eds) The Peripheral Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8699-9_17

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