ArticleNature neuroscience2021
USH2A is a Meissner's corpuscle protein necessary for normal vibration sensing in mice and humans.
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Lamellar Cells of Vertebrate Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles: Development, Characterization, and Functions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Exploratory Immunohistochemical Mapping of Mechanosensitivity-Associated Ion Channel Proteins in Terminal Glial Cells of Human Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2.Nature · 2026Article
- Article
- Mechanical cues as immunomodulators in neuroinflammation-driven spinal sensitization: analgesic mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Functional evidence for early origin of tactile acuity in the vertebrate somatosensory system.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Article
- The inner core enables transient touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle.Science advances · 2025Article
- Emergence of a brainstem somatosensory tonotopic map for substrate vibration.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Periarticular Proprioception: Analyzing the Three-Dimensional Structure of Corpuscular Mechanosensors in the Dorsal Part of the Scapholunate Ligament.Cells, tissues, organs · 2025Article
- Encoding of Vibrotactile Stimuli by Mechanoreceptors in Rodent Glabrous Skin.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Article
- Piezo2 voltage-block regulates mechanical pain sensitivity.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Schwann Cells as Orchestrators of Nerve Repair: Implications for Tissue Regeneration and Pathologies.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Origin, identity, and function of terminal Schwann cells.Trends in neurosciences · 2024Review
- Article
- Rare disease research workflow using multilayer networks elucidates the molecular determinants of severity in Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Article
- Sensory Schwann cells set perceptual thresholds for touch and selectively regulate mechanical nociception.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Micropyramid Array Bimodal Electronic Skin for Intelligent Material and Surface Shape Perception Based on Capacitive Sensing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
14 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Fingertip mechanoreceptors comprise sensory neuron endings together with specialized skin cells that form the end-organ. Exquisitely sensitive, vibration-sensing neurons are associated with Meissner's corpuscles in the skin. In the present study, we found that USH2A, a transmembrane protein with a very large extracellular domain, was found in terminal Schwann cells within Meissner's corpuscles. Pathogenic USH2A mutations cause Usher's syndrome, associated with hearing loss and visual impairment. We show that patients with biallelic pathogenic USH2A mutations also have clear and specific impairments in vibrotactile touch perception, as do mutant mice lacking USH2A. Forepaw rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors innervating Meissner's corpuscles, recorded from Ush2a
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.