MeSH Review:
Mechanotransduction, Cellular
- The mechanosensory protein MEC-6 is a subunit of the C. elegans touch-cell degenerin channel. Chelur, D.S., Ernstrom, G.G., Goodman, M.B., Yao, C.A., Chen, L., O' Hagan, R., Chalfie, M. Nature (2002)
- A Drosophila mechanosensory transduction channel. Walker, R.G., Willingham, A.T., Zuker, C.S. Science (2000)
- Extracellular proteins organize the mechanosensory channel complex in C. elegans touch receptor neurons. Emtage, L., Gu, G., Hartwieg, E., Chalfie, M. Neuron (2004)
- Purinergic mechanisms contribute to mechanosensory transduction in the rat colorectum. Wynn, G., Rong, W., Xiang, Z., Burnstock, G. Gastroenterology (2003)
- Laminin-6 assembles into multimolecular fibrillar complexes with perlecan and participates in mechanical-signal transduction via a dystroglycan-dependent, integrin-independent mechanism. Jones, J.C., Lane, K., Hopkinson, S.B., Lecuona, E., Geiger, R.C., Dean, D.A., Correa-Meyer, E., Gonzales, M., Campbell, K., Sznajder, J.I., Budinger, S. J. Cell. Sci. (2005)
- Increased transcriptional response to mechanical strain in keloid fibroblasts due to increased focal adhesion complex formation. Wang, Z., Fong, K.D., Phan, T.T., Lim, I.J., Longaker, M.T., Yang, G.P. J. Cell. Physiol. (2006)
- Fibroblast spreading induced by connective tissue stretch involves intracellular redistribution of alpha- and beta-actin. Langevin, H.M., Storch, K.N., Cipolla, M.J., White, S.L., Buttolph, T.R., Taatjes, D.J. Histochem. Cell Biol. (2006)
- The effect of dynamic mechanical compression on nitric oxide production in the meniscus. Fink, C., Fermor, B., Weinberg, J.B., Pisetsky, D.S., Misukonis, M.A., Guilak, F. Osteoarthr. Cartil. (2001)
- P2X2 knockout mice and P2X2/P2X3 double knockout mice reveal a role for the P2X2 receptor subunit in mediating multiple sensory effects of ATP. Cockayne, D.A., Dunn, P.M., Zhong, Y., Rong, W., Hamilton, S.G., Knight, G.E., Ruan, H.Z., Ma, B., Yip, P., Nunn, P., McMahon, S.B., Burnstock, G., Ford, A.P. J. Physiol. (Lond.) (2005)
- Functional morphology of the telson-uropod stretch receptor in the sand crab Emerita analoga. Wilson, L.J., Paul, D.H. J. Comp. Neurol. (1990)