The following, from the 12th OESO World Conference: Cancers of the Esophagus, includes commentaries on the methods and characteristics of esophageal afferents in humans; the pitfalls in characterization of mechanosensitive afferents; the sensitization of esophageal afferents in human studies; the brain source modeling in the understanding of the esophagus-brain axis; the use of evoked brain potentials in the esophagus; and measuring descending inhibition in animal and human studies.
Keywords: OESO; descending inhibition; esophageal afferents; esophagus-brain axis; evoked brain potential; mechanosensitive; neurophysiology.
© 2014 New York Academy of Sciences.