アウエルバッハ神経叢（アウエルバッハしんけいそう、英語: Auerbach's plexus, ドイツ語: Auerbach-Plexus）は、腸管神経系の一部である。消化管の縦走筋層と輪走筋層との間に位置し、このふたつの筋層に運動刺激を、また粘膜に分泌刺激を及ぼす。アウエルバッハ神経叢は交感神経線維と副交感神経線維の両方を有するのに対し、マイスナー神経叢は副交感神経線維のみを有する。筋層間神経叢（きんそうかんしんけいそう）とも。この神経叢は延髄の迷走神経三角から延展している。神経線維は前神経幹と後神経幹のいずれをも走行する。この神経叢は食道、胃、小腸と大腸の筋肉内にみられる。 筋層間神経叢は、消化管の主要な支配神経であり、消化管の運動性を調節するはたらきをしている。
小早川隆景は実子がおらず当時備後国の国人領主大田氏の跡継ぎとなっていた九弟の小早川秀包を養子とする。しかし秀包は隆景の養子に豊臣家から秀秋が入ると廃嫡され、この時別家を立てている。秀包はその後も豊臣秀吉から優遇され、隆景に従って各地を転戦するうちに加増を重ね、晩年には筑後国久留米城主として13万石を知行するに至った。関ヶ原の戦いでは西軍について京極高次が守る大津城を落としたが、戦後改易された。その後、秀包の子・元鎮が改めて毛利輝元に召し出され、長門国内で阿川・滝部・殿居で7000石を与えられた。その子・元包は寛永2年（1625年）に周防国吉敷郡吉敷村（現在の山口県山口市吉敷地内）に領地替えとなり、このとき1万1000石に加増されている。このとき豊浦にあった菩提寺・黄龍山玄済寺も吉敷に移されており、以後を吉敷毛利家と呼んでいる。元禄12年（1699年）越前松平家が長州藩主毛利綱広の五男監物元重を越前へ連れ去り、一族の松平伊織を養子に押し付けようとした際、毛利就直は国司広直とともにこれを回避するため奔走し、柳沢吉保ら幕閣にも運動して毛利家の血統を守っている（『古老物語・防長古今見聞集』）。文化2年（1805年）領内に郷校「憲章館」を設けた。幕末、家臣服部哲次郎が宣徳隊を結成して禁門の変に参加。藩内の抗争では奇兵隊以下の三隊とともに俗論党と戦った。明治33年（1900年）毛利重輔は華族に列し男爵に叙された。その子孫、大田報助により『毛利十一代史』が発刊された。吉敷玄済寺裏山には歴代当主の墓がある。
吉敷毛利家（よしき もうりけ）は、江戸時代の毛利氏の一族。長州藩の一門家老第四席。毛利元就の三男小早川隆景・九男小早川秀包を祖とする。
A controversial "US government assessment of the Ghouta attacks" was published by the White House on 30 August 2013, with a longer classified version made available to members of Congress. The report blamed the chemical attacks on the Syrian government, saying rockets containing a nerve agent were fired from government-held territory into neighborhoods in the early morning, impacting at least 12 locations. It stated 1,429 people were killed, including at least 426 children. It dismissed the possibility that evidence supporting the US government's conclusion could have been manufactured by the opposition, stating it "does not have the capability" to fabricate videos, eyewitness accounts, and other information. The report also said that the US believed Syrian officials directed the attacks, based on "intercepted communications." A major element, as reported by news media, was an intercepted telephone call between a Syrian Ministry of Defense official and a Syrian 155th Brigade chemical weapons unit commander in which the former demanded answers for the attacks. According to some reports, this phone intercept was provided to the U.S. by Israeli Intelligence Corps Unit 8200.The U.S. government assessment suggested a motive for the attack, describing it as "a desperate effort to push back rebels from several areas in the capital's densely packed eastern suburbs." The report then states that evidence suggests "the high civilian death toll surprised and panicked senior Syrian officials, who called off the attack and then tried to cover it up." Secretary of State John Kerry later announced that hair, blood, soil, and cloth samples collected from the attack sites had tested positive for sarin or its immediate breakdown products.At least three members of Congress, including at least one member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, expressed skepticism about the US intelligence report, calling the evidence circumstantial and thin. Obama's request that Congress authorize military force was not put to a vote of either the House of Representatives or the Senate, and the president ultimately admitted that "I wouldn't say I'm confident" that he could convince Congress to support strikes against Syria.Democratic Party Representative Alan Grayson offered some details regarding the classified report, which he described as 12 pages long, and criticized both the four-page public summary and the classified report. Grayson said the unclassified summary relied on "intercepted telephone calls, 'social media' postings and the like, but not one of these is actually quoted or attached … (As to whether the classified summary is the same, I couldn't possibly comment, but again, draw your own conclusion.)" Grayson cited as a problematic example the intercepted phone call between a Syrian Ministry of Defense official and the Syrian 155th Brigade, the transcript of which was not provided in the classified report, leaving Grayson unable to judge the accuracy of a report in The Daily Caller that the call's implications had been misrepresented in the report.The AP quoted anonymous US intelligence officials as saying that the evidence presented in the report linking Assad to the attack was "not a slam dunk." Jeffrey Goldberg also reported that James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, personally told President Obama that the case for the Syrian government's responsibility was strong but not a "slam dunk." The AP later characterized the evidence released by the administration as circumstantial and said the government had denied its requests for more direct evidence, including satellite imagery and communications intercepts cited in the government assessment.IPS news analyst Gareth Porter questioned why the report was released by the White House as a "government assessment" as opposed being released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as an "intelligence community assessment." Porter quoted former intelligence officials who said the report was "evidently an administration document" and who also suggested evidence was "cherry-picked" to support the conclusion that the Syrian government carried out the attacks.On 9 October, a US spokesman stated the administration lacks the "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" some American voters are seeking but that a "common-sense test" implicates Assad. The U.S. publicly stated there was no "reliable" evidence that the opposition had access to chemical weapons, although Seymour Hersh reported that U.S. intelligence agencies privately assessed some rebel factions to be capable of sarin production.