The encoding of touch in the spinal cord dorsal horn (DH) and its influence on tactile
representations in the brain are poorly understood. Using a range of mechanical stimuli …

The somatosensory system decodes a wide range of tactile stimuli and thus endows us with
a remarkable capacity for object recognition, texture discrimination, sensory-motor feedback …

Mammals use glabrous (hairless) skin of their hands and feet to navigate and manipulate
their environment. Cortical maps of the body surface across species contain …

Our sense of touch emerges from an array of mechanosensory structures residing within the
fabric of our skin. These tactile end organ structures convert innocuous forces acting on the …

The superficial dorsal horn (SDH) of the spinal cord represents the first site of integration
between innocuous and noxious somatosensory stimuli. According to gate control theory …

The somatosensory system decodes a range of tactile stimuli to generate a coherent sense
of touch. Discriminative touch of the body depends on signals conveyed from peripheral …

Tactile stimuli are integrated and processed by neuronal circuits in the deep dorsal horn of
the spinal cord. Several spinal interneuron populations have been implicated in tactile …

The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

Interactions with the physical world are deeply rooted in our sense of touch and depend on
ensembles of somatosensory neurons that invade and innervate the skin. Somatosensory …

The deep dorsal horn is a poorly characterized spinal cord region implicated in processing
low-threshold mechanoreceptor (LTMR) information. We report an array of mouse genetic …