Merkel cells transduce and encode tactile stimuli to drive aβ-Afferent impulses

Cell

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 664-675

  Ikeda, Ryo ^a,b   Cha, Myeounghoon ^a   Ling, Jennifer ^a   Jia, Zhanfeng ^a   Coyle, Dennis ^a   Gu, Jianguo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MERKEL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

DUDLEYA EDULIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MERKEL CELLS; RATS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84899576140     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.026     Document Type: Article

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