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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...

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Autores principales: Woo, Seung-Hyun, Ranade, Sanjeev, Weyer, Andy D., Dubin, Adrienne E., Baba, Yoshichika, Qiu, Zhaozhu, Petrus, Matt, Miyamoto, Takashi, Reddy, Kritika, Lumpkin, Ellen A., Stucky, Cheryl L., Patapoutian, Ardem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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