“We are now saying we have an organ in the body which hasn’t been acknowledged as such to date,” said J. Calvin Coffey, who co-wrote the paper, published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology. “This is relevant universally as it affects all of us. Up to now there was no such field as mesenteric science. Now we have established anatomy and the structure. The next step is the function. If you understand the function you can identify abnormal function, and then you have disease.”
Since when mesentery is the new organ? It's the part of peritoneum that holds intestines in abdomen and contains blood vesels, nerves and lymphatic vessels
Since when mesentery is the new organ? It's the part of peritoneum that holds intestines in abdomen and contains blood vesels, nerves and lymphatic vessels