American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology • Vol 62 • No 4
Optogenetic Control of Airway Cholinergic Neurons<i>In Vivo</i>
January 2020 • Alexandra Pincus, Sweta Adhikary, Katie M. Lebold, A.D. Fryer, David B. Jacoby
Dysregulation of airway nerves leads to airway hyperreactivity, a hallmark of asthma. Although changes to nerve density and phenotype have been described in asthma, the relevance of these changes to nerve function has not been investigated due to anatomical limitations where afferent and efferent nerves run in the same nerve trunk, making it difficult to assess their independent contributions. We developed a unique and accessible system to activate specific airway nerves to investigate their function in mouse mode…