Pluto Bioinformatics

GSE141268: Activation of a nerve injury transcriptional signature in airway-innervating sensory neurons after lipopolysaccharide induced lung inflammation I

Bulk RNA sequencing

While the inflammatory immune response of the lung to allergens and pathogens has been extensively studied, little is known about how sensory nerves change in response to an inflammatory insult within the organ they innervate. In our study we describe the collection of vagal sensory neurons innervating the mouse lung, labelled with a retrograde fluorescent tracer instilled into the airways, and the analysis of their transcriptomes by RNAseq. We also determined transcriptomes of the complete sensory ganglia (vagal, trigeminal, DRG) for comparison. We identified transcripts of genes exclusively expressed in vagal nerves, and not in any other sensory nerve type or any other organ. These include unique ion channels, G-protein coupled receptors and several transcripts of unknown function. SOURCE: Melanie,Maya,Kaelberer (melanie.kaelberer@duke.edu) - Duke University