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Gastrointestinal Tract Plexuses (enteric nervous system)

Myenteric plexus	Submucosal plexus
Auerbach's plexus	Meissner's plexus
Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897) a German anatomist and neuropathologist.	Georg Meissner (1829–1905) a German anatomist and physiologist.
first formed plexus lies between the outer longitudinal and inner circular smooth muscle layers of muscularis externa provides motor innervation to both layers secretomotor innervation to the mucosa both parasympathetic and sympathetic input	forms 2-3 days after the myenteric plexus formed by cells migrating from the myenteric plexus innervates smooth muscle of the muscularis mucosae only parasympathetic fibers
Links: enteric nervous system | intestine | neural crest | PMID 25428846