{"id":210050,"date":"2025-03-29T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-identifies-gut-sensor-that-propels-intestines-to-move"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:13:20","slug":"study-identifies-gut-sensor-that-propels-intestines-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-identifies-gut-sensor-that-propels-intestines-to-move","title":{"rendered":"Study identifies gut sensor that propels intestines to move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-identifies-gut-sensor-that-propels-intestines-to-move.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis\u2014moving food through their hollow interiors with coordinated contractions and relaxations of the smooth muscle.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a century, scientists have known that nerve cells in the gut propel the colon to move, allowing the organ to perform its life-sustaining function. But exactly how these intestinal nerve cells do their job has remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Now a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has identified the mechanism behind this phenomenon, showing that the gut\u2019s motility is altered by exercise, pressure, and inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis\u2014moving food through their hollow interiors with coordinated contractions and relaxations of the smooth muscle. For more than a century, scientists have known that nerve cells in the gut propel the colon to move, allowing the organ to perform its life-sustaining function. But exactly how these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}