#  Rachel Wolfson 

Assistant Professor

 

 

 



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 location\_on Harvard Medical School Seeley Mudd, Room 511 250 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115 

 email [rachel\_wolfson@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:rachel_wolfson@hms.harvard.edu) 

 laptop\_windows [Lab Website](https://wolfsonlab.hms.harvard.edu/) 

 laptop\_windows [Publications](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Wolfson+RL) 

 

 



 

Research in the Wolfson lab is focused on understanding how we sense our internal environment. Sensory neurons that innervate internal organs have cell bodies that reside in the dorsal root ganglia, the DRG sensory neurons. These neurons must respond to a diversity of stimuli under physiologic and pathophysiologic circumstances and then control behavioral responses. For example, stomach innervating neurons respond to stretch to control food intake, while colon innervating neurons respond to inflammation to control pain responses. We use mouse genetics, electrophysiology, behavior, biochemistry, and molecular biology to define the neural circuits that underlie visceral sensation and understand the molecular mechanisms through which this diversity of stimuli are sensed. 

 

 

 





 

 

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