{"id":158164,"date":"2023-02-16T00:26:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-new-imaging-technique-for-a-clearer-picture-of-the-brain-in-the-gut"},"modified":"2023-02-16T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:26:37","slug":"a-new-imaging-technique-for-a-clearer-picture-of-the-brain-in-the-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-new-imaging-technique-for-a-clearer-picture-of-the-brain-in-the-gut","title":{"rendered":"A new imaging technique for a clearer picture of the \u2018brain in the gut\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-imaging-technique-for-a-clearer-picture-of-the-brain-in-the-gut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Calgary researchers designed a novel imaging and experimental preparation system, allowing them to record the activity of the enteric nervous system in mice. The new technique allows researchers to record what is sometimes referred to as the gut\u2019s brain during the complex processes of digestion and waste elimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis completely different way of conducting experiments allows us to better understand the complexity of the nerve interactions that are regulating and coordinating the responses by the gut\u2019s nervous system,\u201d says Dr. Wallace MacNaughton, Ph.D., co-principal investigator. \u201cIt opens up new avenues for us to understand what\u2019s really going on, and that\u2019s going to help us understand <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gastrointestinal+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gastrointestinal diseases<\/a> and disorders a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neurons, or nerve cells, embedded in the wall of the gut precisely control its movements. The team used mice genetically encoded with fluorescent labels, so the neurons in the gut\u2019s nervous system would \u201clight up,\u201d glowing green under microscopes, whenever the neurons were activated. The images are already providing new insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Calgary researchers designed a novel imaging and experimental preparation system, allowing them to record the activity of the enteric nervous system in mice. The new technique allows researchers to record what is sometimes referred to as the gut\u2019s brain during the complex processes of digestion and waste elimination. \u201cThis completely different way of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}