Movie S3.

Mechanosensitive EC cells release 5-HT in response to membrane displacement.

A population of gut epithelial enterochromaffin cells is mechanosensitive and requires Piezo2 to convert force into serotonin release

Constanza Alcaino, Kaitlyn R. Knutson, Anthony J. Treichel, Gulcan Yildiz, Peter R. Strege, David R. Linden, Joyce H. Li, Andrew B. Leiter, Joseph H. Szurszewski, Gianrico Farrugia, and Arthur Beyder

PNAS. 2018. 115:E7632-E7641 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1804938115