title: [Nervous control of intestinal motility].
abstract: Leaving aside hormonal factors which should not be underestimated, it is now clear that digestive motility is a unitary phenomenon mainly under control of the nervous system. This system includes three discrete and somewhat redundant integrative levels: the enteric nervous system located in the digestive wall; the prevertebral ganglia and finally the central nervous system operating through more classical parasympathetic (cholinergic or not) or sympathetic (adrenergic) pathways. Nowadays, interest is concentrated upon the enteric nervous system because of its ubiquity, its potentiality, (it is able to operate highly integrative motor functions), its complexity and its neurochemical diversity. This last feature will provide, in the future, numerous opportunities for pharmacology and therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital E. Herriot, Lyon.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Minaire
mesh_terms: D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000502:physiology; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D007395:Interneurons / Q000502:physiology; D007422:Intestines / Q000294:innervation*; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Contrôle nerveux de la motricité digestive.