While I avoid focusing too much on lab papers, this long, massive 2-review process needs a thread in recognition of ⁦ @paulandmull⁩ ⁦ @marcschp⁩ ⁦ @MatheisFanny⁩ and all collaborators who helped us satisfying the 8 reviewers with some tools: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2474-7

this thread will only mention the tools used, just because...

mice, tamoxifen treatment, guanethidine treatment, Resiniferatoxin treatment, Tph1-flox recombination PCR, Serotonin (5-HT) ELISA, Controlling for stress, SFB colonization, Akkermansia muciniphilia colonization...

Bacteroides fragilis colonization, Clostridium spp. colonization, Altered Schaedler Flora colonization, OligoMM12 colonization, Antibiotic treatments, Tributyrin treatment, Exendin treatment, PYY treatment, DREADD agonist, Acute intestinal distension, Cholestyramine treatment...

6-OHDA treatment, Fasting experiments, Tracing injections, Stereotactic Surgery, Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) delivery of SCFAs, Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy (sdVx), PRV tracing with sdVx, Whole mount intestine immunofluorescence, Restraint stress, Cholera toxin tracing...