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CELL
Volume 158, Issue 2, Pages 300-313Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.04.050
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- NIH [AI09561, CA173861, AI104848, CA32551, R21-AI105047]
- Career Development Award from the CCFA
- PCARS from the NIAID
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26461438] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Intestinal peristalsis is a dynamic physiologic process influenced by dietary and microbial changes. It is tightly regulated by complex cellular interactions; however, our understanding of these controls is incomplete. A distinct population of macrophages is distributed in the intestinal muscularis externa. We demonstrate that, in the steady state, muscularis macrophages regulate peristaltic activity of the colon. They change the pattern of smooth muscle contractions by secreting bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2), which activates BMP receptor (BMPR) expressed by enteric neurons. Enteric neurons, in turn, secrete colony stimulatory factor 1 (CSF1), a growth factor required for macrophage development. Finally, stimuli from microbial commensals regulate BMP2 expression by macrophages and CSF1 expression by enteric neurons. Our findings identify a plastic, microbiotadriven crosstalk between muscularis macrophages and enteric neurons that controls gastrointestinal motility.
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