Ablation of Tacr2 in mice leads to gastric emptying disturbance.
Y-L MaoC-L ShenT ZhouB-T MaL-Y TangW-T WuH-X ZhangH-L LuW-X XuZhu-Gang WangPublished in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2017)
Tacr2 negatively regulated the expression of nNOS and VIP both in vivo and in vitro. Its ablation in mice elevated the expression of nNOS and VIP, enhanced NO signaling and changed the Creb and NF-κB signalings, finally leading to the gastric emptying disturbance of Tacr2-/- mice.