Humans can easily perceive the shapes and textures of grasped objects due to high-density mechanoreceptor networks in the hand. However, replicating this capability in wearable devices with limited ...

The perceived roughness of macroscopic surface features is related to finger skin deformation. For example, skin indentation into surface grooves and the spatial variation in slowly adapting type 1 ...

Functional dyspepsia is a symptom complex characterised by postprandial upper abdominal discomfort or pain, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, bloating, and anorexia in the absence ...

But Dr Serbanovic Canic has used zebrafish to study molecules called ‘mechanoreceptors’ which are thought to translate this signal. She has identified one mechanoreceptor called polycystin-1 (Pkd1) ...

According to a 2014 review in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology [1] polycystin-1 is a mechanoreceptor – essentially a sensor that helps kidney cells respond to fluid flow.

Ascidians (also known as sea squirts) are small marine animals. Ascidian larvae have tadpole-like bodies and swim by beating their tail, but the adults have a vase-like shape, no tail and are attached ...

Cardiac muscle cells have an intrinsic ability to sense and respond to mechanical load through a process known as mechanotransduction. In the heart, this process involves the conversion of mechanical ...

In macrochaete bristles, a class of es organ, btv mutants show a 50% reduction in mechanoreceptor potentials. Discussion: Thus, the btv-encoded Dync2h1 functions as the retrograde IFT motor in the ...

Understanding the current prevalence and incidence of running injury from an evolutionary perspective has sparked great debate. Proponents of the evolutionary approach to understanding running injury ...

Abstract. Larvae of the ascidian Ciona initiate metamorphosis tens of minutes after adhesion to a substratum via their adhesive organ. The gap between adhesion and metamorphosis initiation is ...

Owing to growing environmental concerns, the development of lead-free piezoelectrics with comparable performance to the benchmark Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) becomes of great urgency. However, a further ...