Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Thiazoline-related innate fear stimuli orchestrate hypothermia and anti-hypoxia via sensory TRPA1 activation

  • Tomohiko Matsuo,
  • Tomoko Isosaka,
  • Yuichiro Hayashi,
  • Lijun Tang,
  • Akihiro Doi,
  • Aiko Yasuda,
  • Mikio Hayashi,
  • Chia-Ying Lee,
  • Liqin Cao,
  • Natsumaro Kutsuna,
  • Sachihiro Matsunaga,
  • Takeshi Matsuda,
  • Ikuko Yao,
  • Mitsuyoshi Setou,
  • Dai Kanagawa,
  • Koichiro Higasa,
  • Masahito Ikawa,
  • Qinghua Liu,
  • Reiko Kobayakawa,
  • Ko Kobayakawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22205-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Matsuo et al. report that thiazoline-related innate fear-eliciting compounds activate the spinal trigeminal nucleus (Sp5) and the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) via vagal/trigeminal TRPA1 to induce robust physiological alterations, enabling long time survival in a lethal hypoxic environment.