Piezo2 channel conductance and localization domains in Merkel cells of rat whisker hair follicles

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 583, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-215

  Ikeda, Ryo ^a,b   Gu, Jianguo G ^a  

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

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptor; Mechanotransduction; Merkel cell; Piezo2; Whisker hair follicle

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PIEZO2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ION CHANNEL; PIEZO2 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL ADHESION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR FOLLICLE; ION CONDUCTANCE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MERKEL CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; RAT; STEADY STATE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA; WHOLE CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; HAIR FOLLICLE; ION CHANNELS; MERKEL CELLS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84908609480     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.05.055     Document Type: Note

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