Tissue mechanics govern the rapidly adapting and symmetrical response to touch

The importance of touch in development

(2017) Evan L Ardiel et al.   Paediatrics & Child Health

Feeling Force: Physical and Physiological Principles Enabling Sensory Mechanotransduction

(2015) Samata Katta et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Ankyrin Repeats Convey Force to Gate the NOMPC Mechanotransduction Channel

(2015) Wei Zhang et al.   CELL

Regulation of Mechanosensation in C. elegans through Ubiquitination of the MEC-4 Mechanotransduction Channel

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Merkel Cells Transduce and Encode Tactile Stimuli to Drive Aβ-Afferent Impulses

(2014) Ryo Ikeda et al.   CELL

Balboa Binds to Pickpocket In Vivo and Is Required for Mechanical Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

(2014) Stephanie E. Mauthner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Piezo2 is the major transducer of mechanical forces for touch sensation in mice

(2014) Sanjeev S. Ranade et al.   NATURE

Epidermal Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that tune mammalian touch receptors

(2014) Srdjan Maksimovic et al.   NATURE

Piezo2 is required for Merkel-cell mechanotransduction

(2014) Seung-Hyun Woo et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) Ryo Ikeda et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Feeling the hidden mechanical forces in lipid bilayer is an original sense

(2014) A. Anishkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The gentle touch receptors of mammalian skin

(2014) A. Zimmerman et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of Ppk26, a DEG/ENaC Channel Functioning with Ppk1 in a Mutually Dependent Manner to Guide Locomotion Behavior in Drosophila

(2014) David A. Gorczyca et al.   Cell Reports

A NOMPC-Dependent Membrane-Microtubule Connector Is a Candidate for the Gating Spring in Fly Mechanoreceptors

(2013) Xin Liang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MEMS-based force-clamp analysis of the role of body stiffness in C. elegans touch sensation

(2013) Bryan C. Petzold et al.   Integrative Biology

The Sensory Neurons of Touch

(2013) Victoria E. Abraira et al.   NEURON

Drosophila NOMPC is a mechanotransduction channel subunit for gentle-touch sensation

(2012) Zhiqiang Yan et al.   NATURE

How We Feel: Ion Channel Partnerships that Detect Mechanical Inputs and Give Rise to Touch and Pain Perception

(2012) Shana L. Geffeney et al.   NEURON

Caenorhabditis elegans Body Mechanics Are Regulated by Body Wall Muscle Tone

(2011) Bryan C. Petzold et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The C. elegans Touch Response Facilitates Escape from Predacious Fungi

(2011) Sean M. Maguire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The DEG/ENaC Protein MEC-10 Regulates the Transduction Channel Complex in Caenorhabditis elegans Touch Receptor Neurons

(2011) J. Arnadottir et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The indentation of pressurized elastic shells: from polymeric capsules to yeast cells

(2011) D. Vella et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Recording of mechanosensitive currents using piezoelectrically driven mechanostimulator

(2011) Jizhe Hao et al.   Nature Protocols

Molecular mechanisms of mechanotransduction in mammalian sensory neurons

(2011) Patrick Delmas et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

DEG/ENaC but Not TRP Channels Are the Major Mechanoelectrical Transduction Channels in a C. elegans Nociceptor

(2011) Shana L. Geffeney et al.   NEURON

Piezoresistive cantilever force-clamp system

(2011) Sung-Jin Park et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

The neural circuits and sensory channels mediating harsh touch sensation in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2011) Wei Li et al.   Nature Communications

Optogenetic analysis of synaptic transmission in the central nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

(2011) Theodore H. Lindsay et al.   Nature Communications

Pickpocket Is a DEG/ENaC Protein Required for Mechanical Nociception in Drosophila Larvae

(2010) Lixian Zhong et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The cell biology of touch

(2010) Ellen A. Lumpkin et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The tension-transmitting 'clutch' in the mechanosensitive channel MscS

(2010) Vladislav Belyy et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

C. elegans TRP Family Protein TRP-4 Is a Pore-Forming Subunit of a Native Mechanotransduction Channel

(2010) Lijun Kang et al.   NEURON

The Role of the TRP Channel NompC in Drosophila Larval and Adult Locomotion

(2010) Li E. Cheng et al.   NEURON

Interactions between internal forces, body stiffness, and fluid environment in a neuromechanical model of lamprey swimming

(2010) E. D. Tytell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomechanical analysis of gait adaptation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

(2010) C. Fang-Yen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Piezo1 and Piezo2 Are Essential Components of Distinct Mechanically Activated Cation Channels

(2010) B. Coste et al.   SCIENCE

The Multipurpose 15-Protofilament Microtubules in C. elegans Have Specific Roles in Mechanosensation

(2009) Alexander Bounoutas et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Design optimization of piezoresistive cantilevers for force sensing in air and water

(2009) Joseph C. Doll et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Piezoresistive Cantilever Performance—Part I: Analytical Model for Sensitivity

(2009) Sung-Jin Park et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

GABAergic/Glutamatergic-Glial/Neuronal Interaction Contributes to Rapid Adaptation in Pacinian Corpuscles

(2009) L. Pawson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

MEC-2 and MEC-6 in theCaenorhabditis elegansSensory Mechanotransduction Complex: Auxiliary Subunits that Enable Channel Activity

(2008) Austin L. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Neurosensory mechanotransduction

(2008) Martin Chalfie   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY