A somatosensory circuit for cooling perception in mice

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1560-1566

  Milenkovic, Nevena ^a,b   Zhao, Wen Jie ^a,b   Walcher, Jan ^a,b   Albert, Tobias ^a,b   Siemens, Jan ^c   Lewin, Gary R ^a,b   Poulet, James F A ^a,b  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M8; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M; TRPM8 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; GLABROUS SKIN; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TEMPERATURE SENSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COLD; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; INNERVATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; THERMOSENSING; TOUCH; TRPM CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84908565498     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3828     Document Type: Article

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