Since their 2010 discovery, PIEZO channels have been implicated in our ability to sense touch and pain, to understand how our bodies are positioned in space (proprioception), to perceive our body ...

Homeostasis is the result of variables being regulated such that the internal environment remains stable and fairly constant even though the external environment varies. For example, in humans ...

Homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment to keep conditions at an optimum. The nervous system and hormones are responsible for this. Hormones close hormoneChemical ...

Behind human tool-use abilities lays the brain capacity to incorporate tools into the body representation for action (Body Schema, BS), thought to rely mainly on proprioceptive information. Here, we ...

This video demonstrates how the eye works and what happens if someone is long or short sighted.

While ion channels have been implicated in maintaining cellular homeostasis, their cell surface localization often places them among the first few molecules to sense external cues. Mechanosensitive ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...

This study is a valuable contribution to the field of neuronal modeling by way of providing a method for rapidly obtaining neuronal physiology parameters from electrophysiological recordings. While ...

3 Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China Introduction Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is still a challenging degenerative joint disease with ...