Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity

Social touch-like tactile stimulation activates a tachykinin 1-oxytocin pathway to promote social interactions

(2022) Hang Yu et al.   NEURON

Chronic paternal morphine exposure increases sensitivity to morphine-derived pain relief in male progeny

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Bridging skin, brain, and behavior to understand pleasurable social touch

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The impact of C-tactile low-threshold mechanoreceptors on affective touch and social interactions in mice

(2022) Damien Huzard et al.   Science Advances

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MrgprdCre lineage neurons mediate optogenetic allodynia through an emergent polysynaptic circuit

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The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation

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Sensorimotor strategies and neuronal representations for shape discrimination

(2021) Chris C. Rodgers et al.   NEURON

The emergence of transcriptional identity in somatosensory neurons

(2020) Nikhil Sharma et al.   NATURE

Loss of bhlha9 Impairs Thermotaxis and Formalin-Evoked Pain in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner

(2020) Manon Bohic et al.   Cell Reports

Sexual experience with a known male modulates c-Fos expression in response to mating and male pheromone exposure in female mice

(2020) P. Marco-Manclus et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Meissner corpuscles and their spatially intermingled afferents underlie gentle touch perception

(2020) Nicole L. Neubarth et al.   SCIENCE

A machine-vision approach for automated pain measurement at millisecond timescales

(2020) Jessica M Jones et al.   eLife

pMAT: An open-source software suite for the analysis of fiber photometry data

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Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation

(2019) Ali Mohebi et al.   NATURE

Tiling and somatotopic alignment of mammalian low-threshold mechanoreceptors

(2019) Emily D. Kuehn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cortical layer–specific critical dynamics triggering perception

(2019) James H. Marshel et al.   SCIENCE

Targeting Peripheral Somatosensory Neurons to Improve Tactile-Related Phenotypes in ASD Models

(2019) Lauren L. Orefice et al.   CELL

Trigeminal Pain Responses in Obese ob/ob Mice Are Modality-Specific

(2019) Heather L. Rossi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Development of a Mouse Pain Scale Using Sub-second Behavioral Mapping and Statistical Modeling

(2019) Ishmail Abdus-Saboor et al.   Cell Reports

A Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensor Enables Rapid and Specific Detection of Dopamine in Flies, Fish, and Mice

(2018) Fangmiao Sun et al.   CELL

Efficient and accurate extraction of in vivo calcium signals from microendoscopic video data

(2018) Pengcheng Zhou et al.   eLife

Role of VTA dopamine neurons and neuroligin 3 in sociability traits related to nonfamiliar conspecific interaction

(2018) Sebastiano Bariselli et al.   Nature Communications

The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo2 mediates sensitivity to mechanical pain in mice

(2018) Swetha E. Murthy et al.   Science Translational Medicine

DREADD-induced silencing of the medial amygdala reduces the preference for male pheromones and the expression of lordosis in estrous female mice

(2017) Elizabeth A. McCarthy et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Dopamine reward prediction errors reflect hidden-state inference across time

(2017) Clara Kwon Starkweather et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Engineered AAVs for efficient noninvasive gene delivery to the central and peripheral nervous systems

(2017) Ken Y Chan et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour

(2017) Marisela Morales et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Active Touch and Self-Motion Encoding by Merkel Cell-Associated Afferents

(2017) Kyle S. Severson et al.   NEURON

A mechanically activated ion channel is functionally expressed in the MrgprB4 positive sensory neurons, which detect stroking of hairy skin in mice

(2017) Soichiro Yamaguchi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Distinct behavioral responses evoked by selective optogenetic stimulation of the major TRPV1+ and MrgD+ subsets of C-fibers

(2017) Hélène Beaudry et al.   PAIN

C-tactile afferent stimulating touch carries a positive affective value

(2017) Ralph Pawling et al.   PLoS One

Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Signaling Regulates Sexual Preference for Females in Male Mice

(2017) Yamit Beny-Shefer et al.   Cell Reports

Genetic ablation of GINIP-expressing primary sensory neurons strongly impairs Formalin-evoked pain

(2017) Louise Urien et al.   Scientific Reports

Peripheral Mechanosensory Neuron Dysfunction Underlies Tactile and Behavioral Deficits in Mouse Models of ASDs

(2016) Lauren L. Orefice et al.   CELL

Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response

(2016) Wolfram Schultz   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Incoherent Feed-Forward Regulatory Loops Control Segregation of C-Mechanoreceptors, Nociceptors, and Pruriceptors

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Cell type–specific manipulation with GFP-dependent Cre recombinase

(2015) Jonathan C Y Tang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Vaginal Cytology of the Laboratory Rat and Mouse

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The Low-Threshold Calcium Channel Cav3.2 Determines Low-Threshold Mechanoreceptor Function

(2015) Amaury François et al.   Cell Reports

Female juvenile play elicits Fos expression in dopaminergic neurons of the VTA.

(2014) Katharine V. Northcutt et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Natural Neural Projection Dynamics Underlying Social Behavior

(2014) Lisa A. Gunaydin et al.   CELL

Phasic Dopamine Release in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Symmetrically Encodes a Reward Prediction Error Term

(2014) Andrew S. Hart et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Human C-Tactile Afferents Are Tuned to the Temperature of a Skin-Stroking Caress

(2014) R. Ackerley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Epidermal Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that tune mammalian touch receptors

(2014) Srdjan Maksimovic et al.   NATURE

The structure and organization of lanceolate mechanosensory complexes at mouse hair follicles

(2014) Lishi Li et al.   eLife

Runx1 Controls Terminal Morphology and Mechanosensitivity of VGLUT3-expressing C-Mechanoreceptors

(2013) S. Lou et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Genetic identification of C fibres that detect massage-like stroking of hairy skin in vivo

(2013) Sophia Vrontou et al.   NATURE

Progesterone-facilitated lordosis of estradiol-primed mice is attenuated by knocking down expression of membrane progestin receptors in the midbrain

(2013) Cheryl A. Frye et al.   STEROIDS

TAFA4, a Chemokine-like Protein, Modulates Injury-Induced Mechanical and Chemical Pain Hypersensitivity in Mice

(2013) Marie-Claire Delfini et al.   Cell Reports

The Functional Organization of Cutaneous Low-Threshold Mechanosensory Neurons

(2011) Lishi Li et al.   CELL

The Development of Female Sexual Behavior Requires Prepubertal Estradiol

(2011) O. Brock et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Projection-Specific Modulation of Dopamine Neuron Synapses by Aversive and Rewarding Stimuli

(2011) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

Injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity requires C-low threshold mechanoreceptors

(2009) Rebecca P. Seal et al.   NATURE

Mechanisms of Compartmentalized Expression of Mrg Class G-Protein-Coupled Sensory Receptors

(2008) Y. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE