Terumasa Komuro

2012

The objective of this Atlas is to introduce the structure and distributions of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) to researchers, clinicians and students of biomedical fields who are interested in the motility of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the regulatory mechanism of the smooth muscle in general. Recent development of ICC studies have broadened the research horizon from only the GI tract to other hollow organs with smooth muscle coats outside GI tract, and the presence or absence of ICC and their functional states in these organs are often discussed in the context of a variety of diseases.