Touch receptors articles within Nature

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  • Article |

    Genetic manipulation of skin peripheral sensory neurons in mice shows that cortical neuron responses to touch reflect subcortical mixing of signals from both rapidly adapting and slowly adapting low-threshold mechanoreceptors.

    • Alan J. Emanuel
    • , Brendan P. Lehnert
    •  & David D. Ginty

  • Article |

    Two populations of neurons with distinct anatomy and receptor expression that convey information from the spinal cord to the brain have different functional properties with respect to touch and pain.

    • Seungwon Choi
    • , Junichi Hachisuka
    •  & David D. Ginty

  • Letter |

    The cellular basis of touch has long been debated, in particular the relationship between sensory neurons and non-neuronal cells; a mouse study uses optogenetics to identify their distinct and collaborative roles, with skin-derived Merkel cells both transducing touch and actively tuning responses of touch-sensitive neurons.

    • Srdjan Maksimovic
    • , Masashi Nakatani
    •  & Ellen A. Lumpkin

  • Letter |

    A mouse study shows that non-neuronal epidermal Merkel cells aid fine-touch perception in the skin through their expression of the Piezo2 mechanosensitive cation channel which then actively tunes the response to touch in adjacent somatosensory neurons.

    • Seung-Hyun Woo
    • , Sanjeev Ranade
    •  & Ardem Patapoutian

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