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Micro-organisms in the gut support healthy digestion by helping nerve cells within the intestine to regulate the contraction and relaxation of the muscle wall of the colon, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/396dDpo

Glad to be part of Marie Mulier's work: Upregulation of TRPM3 drives hyperexcitability in nociceptors innervating inflamed tissue. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Need an update or brand new to the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) and its circuitry, check out our latest review in CMLS. rdcu.be/b4gcS (Candice Fung & PieterVdB_LENS)

Glad to share Youcef Kazwiny's paper on "Extracting neuronal signals from contractile tissues". Hope it's helpful for all of you studying the ENS and other complex moving tissues. (@El____cid) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Proud to have @Candice_Fung_ 's latest work on BioRxiv. See how different luminal nutrients activate particular submucosal and myenteric neurons ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested to join LENS KU Leuven ? check out our available positions gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/resear…

The GI tract contains ~500 million neurons & known as “second brain”. In this #eNeuro study, Fortea & @Piyush_014 et al. KU Leuven describe a method to preserve human nerve tissue, obtained from the so-called second brain, keeping it alive up till 1 year. eneuro.org/content/8/6/EN…

Congrats to @Candice_Fung_ for winning "best presentation" prize at ENS2022 conference in Ferrara!

Congratulations @Valerie_VSBN with your PNAS paper on live Abberior STED imaging of microtubules. Thanks everyone (LENS, @WBoesmans BIOMED_UHasselt, Patrik & Marianna Verstreken Lab, and FLC Lab & PDKlab CERVO) for the fantastic collaboration. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Delighted to finally share our manuscript! Thank you to our co-authors The Kierdorf Lab @LabSchlitzer @realFlorentGinhoux PieterVdB_LENS Gianluca Matteoli and to FWO European Research Council (ERC) for the funding. TARGID KU LEUVEN @nature #gut #macrophages nature.com/articles/s4158…