Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Identification of peripheral neural circuits that regulate heart rate using optogenetic and viral vector strategies

  • Pradeep S. Rajendran,
  • Rosemary C. Challis,
  • Charless C. Fowlkes,
  • Peter Hanna,
  • John D. Tompkins,
  • Maria C. Jordan,
  • Sarah Hiyari,
  • Beth A. Gabris-Weber,
  • Alon Greenbaum,
  • Ken Y. Chan,
  • Benjamin E. Deverman,
  • Heike Münzberg,
  • Jeffrey L. Ardell,
  • Guy Salama,
  • Viviana Gradinaru,
  • Kalyanam Shivkumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09770-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The wiring of peripheral neural circuits that regulate heart rate is poorly understood. In this study, authors used tissue clearing for high-resolution characterization of nerves in the heart in 3D and transgenic and novel viral vector approaches to identify peripheral parasympathetic and sympathetic neuronal populations involved in heart rate control in mice.