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To the Editor: The insights provided by Korner and Leibel (Sept. 4 issue)¹ into the interplay between the digestive and nervous systems are cogent, but the figure in their article seems to contain an error or, at least, an oversimplification. A neuron with a cell body that occupies the nucleus of the solitary tract is portrayed as the efferent innervation to the small intestine, according to the direction indicated by the adjacent arrow. Neurons of this type are not efferent, and they do not directly innervate the gut wall. Preganglionic parasympathetic outflow from the hindbrain to postganglionic autonomic neurons in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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