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Introduction: Symptoms of gastric motility disorders are common clinical manifestations of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), and are triggered and exacerbated by stress, but the neural pathways underpinning them remain unclear.

Methods: We set-up a mouse model by gastric dilation (GD) in which the gastric dynamics were assessed by installing strain gauges on the surface of the stomach. The neural pathway associated with gastric motility disorders was investigated by behavioral tests, electrophysiology, neural circuit tracing, and optogenetics and chemogenetics involving projections of the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) from the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) to acetylcholine (ChAT) neurons in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV).

Results: We found that GD induced gastric motility disorders were accompanied by activation of PVN neurons, which could be alleviated by strategies that inhibits the activity of PVN neurons. In addition, we identified a neural pathway in which PVN neurons project into DMV neurons, modulated activity of the PVN →DMV pathway to alleviate gastric motility disorders induced by GD.

Discussion: These findings indicate that the PVN →DMV pathway may mediate at least some aspects of GD related gastric motility, and provide new insights into the mechanisms by which somatic stimulation modulates the physiological functions of internal organs and systems.

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