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Pressing and squeezing with Piezos
Author(s) -
Nilius Bernd
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.181
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , computational biology , biology , nanotechnology , physics , computer science , materials science , mathematics , pure mathematics
Our molecular understanding of somatosensation has been hampered by the difficulty in identifying the sensor in mammals. In a real breakthrough for the field, two proteins—Piezo 1 and 2—have recently been identified as the elusive mechano‐sensors!