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Mechanosensation

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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 ...

Wiley2023

Decoding the essential interplay between central and peripheral control in adaptive locomotion of amphibious centipedes

Auke Ijspeert

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 ...

Nature Research2019

Acetylated 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 Ltd2016

An 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 Ltd2014

Part II: Fibroblasts preferentially migrate in the direction of principal strain

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Matthias Lütolf

A growing body of evidence suggests that the sensory information from the cytoskeleton and integrins may be responsible for guiding migration during mechano- and haptotaxis. However, the dual function of these subcellular structures as mechano-sensors and ...

Springer-Verlag2008