Chapter title |
Memories and Promises of the Enteric Nervous System and Its Functions
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
The Enteric Nervous System
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-27592-5_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-927590-1, 978-3-31-927592-5
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Authors |
Marcello Costa, Costa, Marcello |
Abstract |
This is a very personal reminiscence of the long period of Enteric Nervous System research in which I have been involved. I started to work on the gut in the early 60s really because in Turin when I arrived from Argentina, where my family migrated temporarily after the WWII, nobody was seriously working on the brain. In Anatomy they were studying the neural "intramural plexuses" and that for me was close enough to the nervous system. I grew up in the mountains near Turin near the French border where our ex-family house still bears our name. I joined the Department of Anatomy as an intern student and I was privileged to seat at a desk where a previous generation of young scientists, who studied under the professor of Anatomy A. Levi, the founder of the methods for culturing neural tissue. They were Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who, after migrating to the USA, were each were given the Noble prize. |
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Researcher | 3 | 27% |
Lecturer | 1 | 9% |
Other | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 3 | 27% |
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Neuroscience | 1 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 3 | 27% |