PIEZO2 is required for mechanotransduction in human stem cell-derived touch receptors

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-16

  Schrenk Siemens, Katrin ^a   Wende, Hagen ^a   Prato, Vincenzo ^a   Song, Kun ^a   Rostock, Charlotte ^a   Loewer, Alexander ^b   Utikal, Jochen ^c   Lewin, Gary R ^b   Lechner, Stefan G ^a   Siemens, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR; TOUCH RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ION CHANNEL; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PIEZO2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PIEZO2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PIEZO2 GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TOUCH;

EID: 84925283541     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3894     Document Type: Article

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