Congrats to Allan and the rest of the team from the Oka Lab for their latest paper titled: “The cellular basis of distinct thirst modalities”
This is a beautiful paper describing how cellular subtypes that give rise to distinct types of thirst: osmotic thirst (driving animals to drink pure water) and hypervolemic thirst (driving animals to consume both water and minerals (salts) to recover blood volume) They even show through optogenetic cell stimulation that by stimulating the neurons associated with each thirst type, they can drive specific thirst behaviors. Very cool!