ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2015
Mammalian touch catches up.
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- MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- High-fidelity encoding of mechanostimuli by tactile food-sensing neurons requires an ensemble of ion channels.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Membrane Stretch Gates NMDA Receptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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- The Cellular and Mechanical Basis for Response Characteristics of Identified Primary Afferents in the Rat Vibrissal System.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
- Emotion Measurements Through the Touch of Materials Surfaces.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Spatiotemporal relationships defining the adaptive gating of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscS.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2018Article
- FGF signalling controls the specification of hair placode-derived SOX9 positive progenitors to Merkel cells.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Mechanical Transduction and the Dark Energy of Biology.Biophysical journal · 2018Review
- Piezos thrive under pressure: mechanically activated ion channels in health and disease.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2017Review
- How cells channel their stress: Interplay between Piezo1 and the cytoskeleton.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2017Review
- Transcriptomes and neurotransmitter profiles of classes of gustatory and somatosensory neurons in the geniculate ganglion.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Emergent stochastic oscillations and signal detection in tree networks of excitable elements.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Role of PIEZO2 in Human Mechanosensation.The New England journal of medicine · 2016Article
- Evolutionary Specialization of Tactile Perception in Vertebrates.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Review
- Dermal Contributions to Human Interfollicular Epidermal Architecture and Self-Renewal.International journal of molecular sciences · 2015Review
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Abstract
An assortment of touch receptors innervate the skin and encode different tactile features of the environment. Compared with invertebrate touch and other sensory systems, our understanding of the molecular and cellular underpinnings of mammalian touch lags behind. Two recent breakthroughs have accelerated progress. First, an arsenal of cell-type-specific molecular markers allowed the functional and anatomical properties of sensory neurons to be matched, thereby unraveling a cellular code for touch. Such markers have also revealed key roles of non-neuronal cell types, such as Merkel cells and keratinocytes, in touch reception. Second, the discovery of Piezo genes as a new family of mechanically activated channels has fueled the discovery of molecular mechanisms that mediate and mechanotransduction in mammalian touch receptors.
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