2023
3D architecture and a bicellular mechanism of touch detection in mechanosensory corpuscle
Nikolaev Y, Ziolkowski L, Pang S, Li W, Feketa V, Xu C, Gracheva E, Bagriantsev S. 3D architecture and a bicellular mechanism of touch detection in mechanosensory corpuscle. Science Advances 2023, 9: eadi4147. PMID: 37703368, PMCID: PMC10499330, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi4147.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
A Cross-Species Analysis Reveals a General Role for Piezo2 in Mechanosensory Specialization of Trigeminal Ganglia from Tactile Specialist Birds
Schneider ER, Anderson EO, Feketa VV, Mastrotto M, Nikolaev YA, Gracheva EO, Bagriantsev SN. A Cross-Species Analysis Reveals a General Role for Piezo2 in Mechanosensory Specialization of Trigeminal Ganglia from Tactile Specialist Birds. Cell Reports 2019, 26: 1979-1987.e3. PMID: 30784581, PMCID: PMC6420409, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.01.100.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTrigeminal ganglionPiezo2 ion channelsExpression of moleculesExpression of factorsPiezo2 expressionSomatosensory neuronsNeuronal subtypesSomatosensory systemSuch neuronsSpecialist birdsBird speciesMolecular variationFamily AnatidaeForaging behaviorTactile specializationNeuronsMechanoreceptorsSpecies analysisGangliaGeneral roleBehavioral phenotypesIon channelsGeneral mechanismTactile specialistsFunction of mechanoreceptors