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Piezo2 is required for Merkel cell mechanotransduction
How we sense touch remains fundamentally unknown(1,2). The Merkel cell-neurite complex is a gentle touch receptor in the skin that mediates slowly-adapting (SA) responses of Aβ sensory fibers to encode fine details of objects(3-6). This mechanoreceptor complex was recognized to play an essential rol...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4039622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24717433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13251 |