Concept
Mechanosensation
Related publications (14)
Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Taxels (HAXELs) for Full Body Haptics
Herbert Shea, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy
The ability to mechanically stimulate touch receptors over the entire body is a key feature for fully immersive and highly realistic virtual reality experience. Haptic stickers, flexible arrays of HAXELs (hydraulically amplified TAXels), that enable cutane ...
WILEY2023Investigation of electrical stimulation of the optic nerve for artificial vision
Thanks to recent technological advances in microelectronics and bioengineering, it is now possible to restore lost or impaired sensory modalities by interfering the nervous system with elec-tronic devices and artificially reproducing the electrical encodin ...
EPFL2021Role of the RNA-binding protein Bicaudal-C1 and interacting factors in cystic kidney diseases
Daniel Constam, Benjamin Marcel Daniel Rothé, Céline Gagnieux, Lucía Carolina Leal Esteban
Polycystic kidneys frequently associate with mutations in individual components of cilia, basal bodies or centriolar satellites that perturb complex protein networks. In this review, we focus on the RNA-binding protein Bicaudal-C1 (BICC1) which was found m ...
2020Decoding the essential interplay between central and peripheral control in adaptive locomotion of amphibious centipedes
Amphibious animals adapt their body coordination to compensate for changing substrate properties as they transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments. Using behavioural experiments and mathematical modelling of the amphibious centipede Scolopend ...
2019Effects of visual and thermal stimuli interactions on comfort perception
Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo
In industrialized countries, people spend on average 85-90% of their time indoors (1). For this reason, major efforts are being made to understand and control the factors which affect people’s comfort, health and well-being inside buildings (2). The indoor ...
2017Acetylated tubulin is essential for touch sensation in mice
Kai Johnsson, Luc Reymond, Antonino Asaro
At its most fundamental level, touch sensation requires the translation of mechanical energy into mechanosensitive ion channel opening, thereby generating electro-chemical signals. Our understanding of this process, especially how the cytoskeleton influenc ...
Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2016An experimental and computational analysis of primary cilia deflection under fluid flow
In this study we have developed a novel model of the deflection of primary cilia experiencing fluid flow accounting for phenomena not previously considered. Specifically, we developed a large rotation formulation that accounts for rotation at the base of t ...
Taylor & Francis Ltd2014Recent advances in the epidermal growth factor receptor/ligand system biology on skin homeostasis and keratinocyte stem cell regulation
The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor/ligand system stimulates multiple pathways of signal transduction, and is activated by various extracellular stimuli and inter-receptor crosstalk signaling. Aberrant activation of EGF receptor (EGFR) signaling is ...
Elsevier2013Effect of fluid flow shear stress on Mesenchymal Stem Cells(MSC) differentiation using a microfluidic device
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) are multipotent stem cells that are predominantly obtained from the bone marrow. These cells have a high ability to differentiate into a multitude of cell types, which are very attractive for tissue engineering and cell therapy ...
2011Indo-1 derivatives for local calcium sensing
Kai Johnsson, Annina Aebischer, Cindy Fellay
The role of calcium in signal transduction relies on the precise spatial and temporal control of its concentration. The existing means to detect fluctuations in Ca2+ concentrations with adequate temporal and spatial resolution are limited. We introduce her ...
American Chemical Society2009