The Regularity of Sustained Firing Reveals Two Populations of Slowly Adapting Touch Receptors in Mouse Hairy Skin

Injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity requires C-low threshold mechanoreceptors

(2009) Rebecca P. Seal et al.   NATURE

Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

(2009) Line S Löken et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Phenotyping sensory nerve endings in vitro in the mouse

(2009) Katharina Zimmermann et al.   Nature Protocols

Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks

(2009) Roland S. Johansson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Molecular Identification of Rapidly Adapting Mechanoreceptors and Their Developmental Dependence on Ret Signaling

(2009) Wenqin Luo et al.   NEURON

Low-Threshold Mechanoreceptor Subtypes Selectively Express MafA and Are Specified by Ret Signaling

(2009) Steeve Bourane et al.   NEURON

Non-competitive metabotropic glutamate 1 receptor antagonists block activity of slowly adapting type I mechanoreceptor units in the rat sinus hair follicle

(2009) P.M.B. Cahusac et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Merkel Cells Are Essential for Light-Touch Responses

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