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Enteric Nervous System (ENS) has been classified as the third division of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) in addition to the Sympathicus / Sympathetic Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous System / Parasympathicus / Vagus by Langley during the early 20 th century.
Langley 1921 W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge
Furness & Costa 1980 Neuroscience 5(1): 1-20
Gershon 1981 Annual Review of Neuroscience 4(1): 227–272
Rao & Gershon 2018 Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 19 (9): 552–565

The ENS is the largest and most complex unit of the peripheral nervous system and is located within the walls of the GI…