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Terry L. Powley

Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1968

Publications

230

Citations

10,745

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

57

Publishing since 1968

Research summary
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Terry L. Powley studies the neural wiring between the gut (especially the stomach) and the brain, focusing on how nerves called vagal and spinal afferents sense and control digestive organs. His lab maps the detailed anatomy of nerve fibers in the stomach using tracing and imaging techniques in rodent models, contributing to basic understanding of gut-brain communication that underlies digestion, appetite, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Gut-brain nerve communication (vagal and spinal afferents)Stomach neuroanatomy and innervation mappingNeuropeptides in gastrointestinal nerves (CGRP, substance P)Vagus nerve stimulation and gastric electrical stimulationNeuroscience of digestion and gastrointestinal motility

Publication output rose from 2017 through a peak around 2020-2021 and has since declined markedly through 2023-2024.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 11 publications192020: 17 publications202021: 21 publications21212022: 14 publications222023: 9 publications232024: 2 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The FASEB Journal×17
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×7
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology×6
  • Neurogastroenterology & Motility×3
  • Scientific Reports×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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