Sensory receptors in human skin transmit a wealth of tactile and thermal signals from external environments to the brain. Despite advances in our understanding of mechano- and thermosensation ...

From the gut and airways to the blood, muscle, and skin, diverse sensory receptors are doing unconventional things ... cell profiling to analyze immune memory to COVID-19 vaccines in human samples.

Scientists have found a simple method to convert human skin cells ... like mature DRG-type sensory neurons. "We added compounds including capsaicin, which activates pain receptors on DRG neurons ...

Since the follicle contains many sensory nerve endings ... of touch-sensitive receptors than equivalent cells in the skin. They established co-cultures of human hair follicle cells and sensory ...

Birds, not humans The variant that was just one mutation away from binding to human receptors is now no longer in circulation. De Vries, Boons and colleagues, in collaboration with researchers at ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other. So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the ...