Best of 2024: Intricate Advancements
As 2024 draws to a close, the following publication review features a collection of selected studies from our annual short-list. From uncovering the evolutionary novelties of sound production in baleen whales, the physiological properties and functions of Krause corpuscles, and the mechanisms underlying working memory, this year's research highlights traverse a multitude of innovative applications.
Going to Great Pains: Breakthroughs in Nociception Research
Gearing up for the much-anticipated Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, known as the premier global neuroscience event, this month’s publication review centers around nociception. Here, we highlight how recent advances on the role of sensory neurons elucidate nociceptive pathways, and cover how a novel nociceptive methodology provides a promising technique for standardizing and assessing nocifensive behaviours.
The cellular basis of mechanosensation in mammalian tongue
In this study, in-vivo calcium imaging of mouse trigeminal ganglion neurons is employed to identify functional groups of mechanosensory neurons
Unravelling the Intricacies of Somatosensation
Somatosensation, the process responsible for our perception of the world, is more mechanistically complex than it may seem. Pressure, temperature, and pain are just a few of the various parameters that most organisms use to situate and navigate themselves throughout the world. While these phenomena are well described at a functional level (i.e. the five senses), this sort of communication at the cellular level is much more involved1. Nonetheless, recent publications utilizing our systems have made considerable strides in this field, unveiling some of the mechanisms and cellular basis behind mechano- and somatosensation.
300C-I Dual Mode Indenter: How to Perform Force Control Experiments
In this technical blog, we explain how to perform force control experiments with our 300C-I Dual Mode Indenter.
Identification and Classification of Tongue-Innervating Mechanoreceptors
Join Yalda Moayedi, PhD, for a discussion on how tongue-innervating neurons can be clearly identified and classified according to their mechanosensory functionalities.
Best of 2021: Material Science
This publication review summarizes some of the best recent articles that fall under our Material Science category.
Best of 2021: Neuroscience – Olfaction and Somatosensation
Spatial arrangement of Ret+ and TrkB+ Meissner afferent cutaneous endings. Image courtesy of Neubarth et al., 2020.