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SUBMITTER: Luo J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051912 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luo Jialie J Qian Aihua A Oetjen Landon K LK Yu Weihua W Yang Pu P Feng Jing J Xie Zili Z Liu Shenbin S Yin Shijin S Dryn Dari D Cheng Jizhong J Riehl Terrence E TE Zholos Alexander V AV Stenson William F WF Kim Brian S BS Hu Hongzhen H
Immunity 20180626 1
Intestinal macrophages are critical for gastrointestinal (GI) homeostasis, but our understanding of their role in regulating intestinal motility is incomplete. Here, we report that CX3C chemokine receptor 1-expressing muscularis macrophages (MMs) were required to maintain normal GI motility. MMs expressed the transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) channel, which senses thermal, mechanical, and chemical cues. Selective pharmacologic inhibition of TRPV4 or conditional deletion of TRPV4 f ...[more]