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Abstract
Mechanosensory transduction underlies touch, hearing and proprioception and requires mechanosensitive channels that are directly gated by forces; however, the molecular identities of these channels remain largely elusive. A new study has identified Piezo1 and Piezo2 as a novel class of mechanosensitive channels.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21056836 PMCID: PMC3018681 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.09.053
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN: 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834