Myenteric plexus
The myenteric plexus (or Auerbach plexus after Leopold Auerbach , who first described it in 1862) is, in addition to the submucosus plexus ( Meissner plexus ), part of the enteric nervous system ( intramural nervous system), which in turn belongs to the vegetative nervous system . These are accumulations of ganglia and nerve fibers emanating from them between the circular ( stratum circulare ) and longitudinal muscle layers ( stratum longitudinal ) of the smooth muscles of the wall of the digestive system .
The myenteric plexus controls the motility and peristalsis of the esophagus , stomach and intestines primarily independently of the central nervous system . However, the activity of the plexus and thus that of the motility can be influenced via the parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl Zilles, Bernhard Tillmann: Anatomie . Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-540-69483-0 , pp. 773 .