Keratinocytes can modulate and directly initiate nociceptive responses

Selective keratinocyte stimulation is sufficient to evoke nociception in mice

(2015) Zixuan Pang et al.   PAIN

Epidermal Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that tune mammalian touch receptors

(2014) Srdjan Maksimovic et al.   NATURE

Remote Optogenetic Activation and Sensitization of Pain Pathways in Freely Moving Mice

(2013) I. Daou et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Air-Stimulated ATP Release from Keratinocytes Occurs through Connexin Hemichannels

(2013) Travis P. Barr et al.   PLoS One

Keratinocytes express cytokines and nerve growth factor in response to neuropeptide activation of the ERK1/2 and JNK MAPK transcription pathways

(2013) Xiaoyou Shi et al.   REGULATORY PEPTIDES

Dynamic Changes in Heat Transducing Channel TRPV1 Expression Regulate Mechanically Insensitive, Heat Sensitive C-Fiber Recruitment after Axotomy and Regeneration

(2012) M. P. Jankowski et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Optogenetic silencing strategies differ in their effects on inhibitory synaptic transmission

(2012) Joseph V Raimondo et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Light-evoked Somatosensory Perception of Transgenic Rats That Express Channelrhodopsin-2 in Dorsal Root Ganglion Cells

(2012) Zhi-Gang Ji et al.   PLoS One

Keratinocyte expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide β: Implications for neuropathic and inflammatory pain mechanisms

(2011) Quanzhi Hou et al.   PAIN

Nucleotide signaling and cutaneous mechanisms of pain transduction

(2009) G. Dussor et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Keratinocytes: a source of the transmitter l-glutamate in the epidermis

(2009) Matthias Fischer et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

Non-Neuronal Expression of Transient Receptor Potential Type A1 (TRPA1) in Human Skin

(2009) Ruzanna Atoyan et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Phenotyping sensory nerve endings in vitro in the mouse

(2009) Katharina Zimmermann et al.   Nature Protocols

TRPV3 in keratinocytes transmits temperature information to sensory neurons via ATP

(2009) Sravan Mandadi et al.   PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY

Merkel Cells Are Essential for Light-Touch Responses

(2009) S. M. Maricich et al.   SCIENCE

TRPV1 Unlike TRPV2 Is Restricted to a Subset of Mechanically Insensitive Cutaneous Nociceptors Responding to Heat

(2008) Jeffrey J. Lawson et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Voltage-gated sodium channel expression in rat and human epidermal keratinocytes: Evidence for a role in pain

(2008) Peng Zhao et al.   PAIN