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Vagus, The "Wanderer" - everywhere? A brief overview on established and unlikely targets

Winfried Neuhuber is FAU Senior Professor of Anatomy in the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (Germany). His research focus is on the functional anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, in particular innervation of the gastrointestinal tract using neuronal tract tracing and immunohistochemistry. In this talk, he will present some examples of organs which are targeted by both efferent and afferent vagal neurons. In contrast, he will discuss older and more recent claims of vagal innervation which most likely resulted from tracing artifacts or other misconceptions.