Visceral Mechano-sensing Neurons Control Drosophila Feeding by Using Piezo as a Sensor

Wang, PP; Jia, YJ; Liu, T; Jan, YN; Zhang, W

Zhang, W (corresponding author), Tsinghua Univ, IDG McGovern Inst Brain Res, Sch Life Sci, Tsinghua Peking Joint Ctr Life Sci, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China.; Jan, YN (corresponding author), Univ Calif San Francisco, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Physiol, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA.; Jan, YN (corresponding author), Univ Calif San Francisco, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Biochem, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA.; Jan, YN (corresponding author), Univ Calif San Francisco, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Biophys, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA.

NEURON, 2020; 108 (4): 640

Abstract

Animal feeding is controlled by external sensory cues and internal metabolic states. Does it also depend on enteric neurons that sense mechanical cues......

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