Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014
Stretch-activated ion channel Piezo1 directs lineage choice in human neural stem cells.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 396 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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396 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 632 citations in OpenAlex.
- The mechanisms of exercise improving cardiovascular function by stimulating Piezo1 and TRP ion channels: a systemic review.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2025Pooled it
- Piezo1-mediated mechanotransduction in bone formation and fracture repair.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026Review
- Hippo-YAP/TAZ signalling at the crossroads of brain ageing and neurological disorders: mechanisms, crosstalk, and therapeutic prospects.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Elastomeric 3D-Printed Microenvironments Enable Nanonewton Force Measurements in Healthy and Diseased Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neuroepithelial Cells.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Calvarial Bloom Biomechanics: Dural Tension Governing Cranial Form.Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Recursive feedback between Piezo1 conformation and membrane mechanics drives self-organization into finite clusters.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Piezo1 in Peripheral and Central Sensitisation: Implications for Chronic Pain.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Maladaptive Piezo1 Mechanotransduction Drives Smooth Muscle Aging in the Gut.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Electrical stimulation promotes structural plasticity in cortical spheroids by modulating N-cadherin-dependent collective migration and mechanotransduction.Biomedical engineering letters · 2026Article
- Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
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- Piezo1 channel: structure, mechanogating mechanism, functions, diseases and therapeutic strategy.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Biophysics of lumen morphogenesis.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Noninvasive biophysical modulations of Piezo ion channels.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Review
- Engineering Biomimetic 3D Microenvironments for Extracellular Vesicle Programming Toward Clinical Translation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- White matter injury in neonatal rats is attenuated by GsMTx4 inhibiting oligodendrocyte precursor cell ferroptosis via the PIEZO1/GCLC signaling pathway.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Flow-Induced Yap/Taz Signaling Balances Endothelial and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fates.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Piezo2 tension sensitivity and its modulation by alternative splicing.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Structural architecture of collagen and collagen-fibronectin networks is associated with the invasive behavior of liver cancer cells.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Lipid composition and mechanical force underlie multi-modal regulation of Piezo1 gating.Science advances · 2026Article
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Abstract
Neural stem cells are multipotent cells with the ability to differentiate into neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. Lineage specification is strongly sensitive to the mechanical properties of the cellular environment. However, molecular pathways transducing matrix mechanical cues to intracellular signaling pathways linked to lineage specification remain unclear. We found that the mechanically gated ion channel Piezo1 is expressed by brain-derived human neural stem/progenitor cells and is responsible for a mechanically induced ionic current. Piezo1 activity triggered by traction forces elicited influx of Ca(2+), a known modulator of differentiation, in a substrate-stiffness-dependent manner. Inhibition of channel activity by the pharmacological inhibitor GsMTx-4 or by siRNA-mediated Piezo1 knockdown suppressed neurogenesis and enhanced astrogenesis. Piezo1 knockdown also reduced the nuclear localization of the mechanoreactive transcriptional coactivator Yes-associated protein. We propose that the mechanically gated ion channel Piezo1 is an important determinant of mechanosensitive lineage choice in neural stem cells and may play similar roles in other multipotent stem cells.
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