Publications
C. Fung, T. Venneman, A.M. Holland, T. Martens, M.I. Alata, M.M. Hao, C. Alar, Y. Obata, J. Tack, A. Sifrim, V. Pachnis, W. Boesmans, P. Vanden Berghe (2025) Nutrients activate distinct patterns of small-intestinal enteric neurons. Nature 644, 1069–1077.
C. Fung, P. Vanden Berghe (2024) Regenerating enteric neurites navigate the adult intestine using a glial positioning system? Neuron 112 (18), 2993-2995.
T. Plum, R. Binzberger, R. Thiele, F. Shang, D. Postrach, C. Fung, M. Fortea, N. Stakenborg, Z. Wang, A. Tappe-Theodor, T. Poth, D.A.A. MacLaren, G. Boeckxstaens, R. Kuner, C. Pitzer, H. Monyer, C. Xin, J.V. Bonventre, S. Tanaka, D. Voehringer, P. Vanden Berghe, J. Strid, T.B. Feyerabend, H.R. Rodewald (2023) Mast cells link immune sensing to antigen-avoidance behaviour. Nature 620, 634–642.
P. Vanden Berghe, C. Fung (2023) Optical Approaches to Understanding Enteric Circuits Along the Radial Axis. The Enteric Nervous System II, 71-79.
C. Fung, B. Cools, S. Malagola, T. Martens, J. Tack, Y. Kazwiny, P. Vanden Berghe (2021) Luminal short‐chain fatty acids and 5‐HT acutely activate myenteric neurons in the mouse proximal colon. Neurogastroenterology & Motility 33 (12), e14186.
Y.N. Kang, C. Fung, P. Vanden Berghe (2021) Gut innervation and enteric nervous system development: a spatial, temporal and molecular tour de force. Development 148 (3), dev182543.
C. Fung, P. Vanden Berghe (2020) Functional circuits and signal processing in the enteric nervous system. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 77 (22), 4505-4522.
Y. Obata, Á. Castaño, S. Boeing, A.C. Bon-Frauches, C. Fung, T. Fallesen, M. Gomez de Agüero, B. Yilmaz, R. Lopes, A. Huseynova, S. Horswell, M.R. Maradana, W. Boesmans, P. Vanden Berghe, A.J. Murray, B. Stockinger, A.J. Macpherson, V. Pachnis (2020) Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology. Nature 578 (7794), 284-289.
C. Fung, P. Vanden Berghe (2020) Breaking it down: the metabolism of neurotransmitters in the colonic wall. Journal Of Physiology-London 598 (20), 4431-4432.
M.M. Hao, C. Fung, W. Boesmans, K. Lowette, J. Tack, P. Vanden Berghe (2020) Development of the intrinsic innervation of the small bowel mucosa and villi. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 318 (1) G53-G65.
Z. Li, C. Fung, P. Vanden Berghe (2020) Electric Activity and Neuronal Components in the Gut Wall, Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology (Second Edition), Academic Press, Pages 133-145.
W. Boesmans, M.M. Hao, C. Fung, Z. Li, C. Van den Haute, J. Tack J, V. Pachnis, P. Vanden Berghe. (2019) Structurally defined signaling in neuro-glia units in the enteric nervous system. Glia, 67 (6), 1167-1178.
M. Swaminathan, C. Fung, D.I. Finkelstein, J.C. Bornstein, J.P.P. Foong. (2019) α-synuclein regulates development and function of cholinergic enteric neurons in the mouse colon. Neuroscience 423, 76-85.
C. Fung, K. Koussoulas, P. Unterweger, A.M. Allen, J.C. Bornstein and J.P.P. Foong. (2018) Cholinergic submucosal neurons display increased excitability following in vivo cholera toxin exposure in mouse ileum. Frontiers in Physiology, 9:260.
K. Koussoulas, M. Swaminathan, C. Fung, J.C. Bornstein and J.P.P. Foong (2018) Neurally released GABA acts via GABAC receptors to modulate Ca2+ transients evoked by trains of synaptic inputs, but not responses evoked by single stimuli, in myenteric neurons of the mouse ileum. Frontiers in Physiology, 9:97.
C. Fung, W. Boesmans, C. Cirillo, J.P.P. Foong, J.C. Bornstein, P. Vanden Berghe. (2017) VPAC receptor subtypes tune purinergic neuron-to-glia communication in the murine submucosal plexus. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 11:118.
C. Fung, P. Unterweger, L.J. Parry, J.C. Bornstein, J.P.P. Foong. (2014) VPAC1 receptors regulate intestinal secretion and muscle contractility by activating cholinergic neurons in guinea pig jejunum. American Journal of Physiology – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 306(9), G748-58.
C. Fung, M. Ellis, and J.C. Bornstein. (2010) Luminal cholera toxin alters motility in isolated guinea-pig jejunum via a pathway independent of 5-HT3 receptors. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4:162.