Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Noninvasive sub-organ ultrasound stimulation for targeted neuromodulation

  • Victoria Cotero,
  • Ying Fan,
  • Tea Tsaava,
  • Adam M. Kressel,
  • Ileana Hancu,
  • Paul Fitzgerald,
  • Kirk Wallace,
  • Sireesha Kaanumalle,
  • John Graf,
  • Wayne Rigby,
  • Tzu-Jen Kao,
  • Jeanette Roberts,
  • Chitresh Bhushan,
  • Suresh Joel,
  • Thomas R. Coleman,
  • Stavros Zanos,
  • Kevin J. Tracey,
  • Jeffrey Ashe,
  • Sangeeta S. Chavan,
  • Christopher Puleo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08750-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Stimulation of peripheral nerve activity may be used to treat metabolic and inflammatory disorders, but current approaches need implanted devices. Here, the authors present a non-invasive approach, and show that ultrasound-mediated stimulation can be targeted to specific sub-organ locations in preclinical models and alter the response of metabolic and inflammatory neural pathways.