The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle ... The parasympathetic nerve supply comes from the nucleus ambiguus and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve and provides motor innervation ...

Nerve signals from the brain tell the muscles in your esophagus to contract when you swallow something. Faulty nerve signaling may play a role in whether or not you develop this condition.

Esophageal achalasia is a chronic disease of the esophagus, which causes a slow deterioration of nerve function. The esophagus is the tube that connects the throat with the stomach. It sits ...

Walsh speculates that hiccups in oesophageal cancer patients could in some way be connected with the phrenic nerve, a motor nerve that controls the diaphragm. About 15,000 new cases of oesophageal ...

The acid‐induced oesophageal pain procedure was used as a validated model on which the current study was based. In this study, the researchers used a transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (t-VNS) ...

The evidence on the safety of endoscopic radiofrequency ablation for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is adequate in the short and medium term but there is uncertainty about longer‑term ...

The esophagus wall is composed of striated muscle ... The parasympathetic nerve supply comes from the nucleus ambiguus and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve and provides motor innervation ...