ArticleAnatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)2015
The Musculature That Drives Active Touch by Vibrissae and Nose in Mice.
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- Orofacial Movements: Individuality and Stereotypy When Mice Move a Single Whisker to Touch.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Follicle architecture and innervation of functionally distinct rat vibrissae.Communications biology · 2025Article
- A change in behavioral state switches the pattern of motor output that underlies rhythmic head and orofacial movements.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Body language signals for rodent social communication.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models.Progress in neurobiology · 2021Review
- WhiskEras: A New Algorithm for Accurate Whisker Tracking.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2020Article
- Whisking Asymmetry Signals Motor Preparation and the Behavioral State of Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Optogenetic and transcriptomic interrogation of enhanced muscle function in the paralyzed mouse whisker pad.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
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- An open-source high-speed infrared videography database to study the principles of active sensing in freely navigating rodents.GigaScience · 2018Article
- More than Just a "Motor": Recent Surprises from the Frontal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Review
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- Whisker touch guides canopy exploration in a nocturnal, arboreal rodent, the Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- Whisking mechanics and active sensing.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2016Review
- Peripheral optogenetic stimulation induces whisker movement and sensory perception in head-fixed mice.eLife · 2016Article
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- Circuits in the Ventral Medulla That Phase-Lock Motoneurons for Coordinated Sniffing and Whisking.Neural plasticity · 2016Review
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Abstract
Coordinated action of facial muscles during whisking, sniffing, and touching objects is an important component of active sensing in rodents. Accumulating evidence suggests that the anatomical schemes that underlie active sensing are similar across the majority of whisking rodents. Intriguingly, however, muscle architecture in the mystacial pad of the mouse was reported to be different, possessing only one extrinsic vibrissa protracting muscle (M. nasalis) in the rostral part of the snout. In this study, the organization of the muscles that move the nose and the mystacial vibrissae in mice was re-examined and compared with that reported previously in other rodents. We found that muscle distribution within the mystacial pad and around the tip of the nose in mice is isomorphic with that found in other whisking rodents. In particular, in the rostral part of the mouse snout, we describe both protractors and retractors of the vibrissae. Nose movements are controlled by the M. dilator nasi and five subunits of the M. nasolabialis profundus, with involvement of the nasal cartilaginous skeleton as a mediator in the muscular effort translation.
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