The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation

A Handler, DD Ginty - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Our sense of touch emerges from an array of mechanosensory structures residing within the
fabric of our skin. These tactile end organ structures convert innocuous forces acting on the …

The gentle touch receptors of mammalian skin

A Zimmerman, L Bai, DD Ginty - Science, 2014 - science.org
The skin is our largest sensory organ, transmitting pain, temperature, itch, and touch
information to the central nervous system. Touch sensations are conveyed by distinct …

Bio‐inspired artificial fast‐adaptive and slow‐adaptive mechanoreceptors with synapse‐like functions

HQ Huynh, TQ Trung, A Bag, TD Do… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of artificial mechanoreceptors capable of sensing and pre‐processing
external mechanical stimuli is a crucial step toward constructing neuromorphic perception …

Touch sense: functional organization and molecular determinants of mechanosensitive receptors

Y Roudaut, A Lonigro, B Coste, J Hao, P Delmas… - Channels, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Cutaneous mechanoreceptors are localized in the various layers of the skin where they
detect a wide range of mechanical stimuli, including light brush, stretch, vibration and …

[HTML][HTML] Review series: The cell biology of touch

EA Lumpkin, KL Marshall, AM Nelson - The Journal of cell biology, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The sense of touch detects forces that bombard the body's surface. In metazoans, an
assortment of morphologically and functionally distinct mechanosensory cell types are tuned …

Analysis of fan stage conceptual design attributes for boundary layer ingestion

DK Hall, EM Greitzer, CS Tan - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper describes a new conceptual framework for three-dimensional turbomachinery
flow analysis and its use to assess fan stage attributes for mitigating adverse effects of inlet …

Lamellar cells in Pacinian and Meissner corpuscles are touch sensors

YA Nikolaev, VV Feketa, EO Anderson… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The skin covering the human palm and other specialized tactile organs contains a high
density of mechanosensory corpuscles tuned to detect transient pressure and vibration …

Tactile sensation in birds: Physiological insights from avian mechanoreceptors

LH Ziolkowski, EO Gracheva, SN Bagriantsev - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The sense of touch is ubiquitous in vertebrates and relies upon the detection of mechanical
forces in the skin by the tactile end-organs of low-threshold mechanoreceptors. Significant …

The lamellar cells of vertebrate meissner and pacinian corpuscles: development, characterization, and functions

I Suazo, JA Vega, Y García-Mesa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sensory corpuscles, or cutaneous end-organ complexes, are complex structures localized at
the periphery of Aβ-axon terminals from primary sensory neurons that primarily work as low …

A glial ClC Cl− channel mediates nose touch responses in C. elegans

J Fernandez-Abascal, CK Johnson, B Graziano… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
In touch receptors, glia and accessory cells play a key role in mechanosensation. However,
the mechanisms underlying such regulation are poorly understood. We show, for the first …