Nature Neuroscience
3, 1232 - 1234 (2000)
doi:10.1038/81746
Closing in on a mammalian touch receptorMonica Driscoll
& Nektarios Tavernarakis
The authors are in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, A232 Nelson Biological Laboratories, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
driscoll@mbcl.rutgers.edu
A recent Nature paper on mice lacking the Na+ channel BNC1 shows that this channel is essential for neuronal touch receptor function and may be part of a mechanosensory complex.
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