Spare the pain for your gut Treg cells!

Trends Pharmacol Sci

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: October 2024

Maintaining gut homeostasis requires a complex interplay between the nervous and immune systems and the microbiome, but the nature of their interactions remains unclear. Chiu and Benoist's teams employed designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADD)-based chemogenetics to target specific neuronal cell types and evaluate their effects on both the gut immune system and the microbiota.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2024.08.008DOI Listing

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