Mechanical compression
1 paper1 finding
- 1 lab in 1 country
- Funders: National Key Research and Development Program of China and 2 more
- Animals1
Outcomes
1PIEZO1
upin animals1
1 study
PIEZO1
upin animals1
Mechanical compression activates PIEZO1.
“Mechanistically, cell compression activates the mechanosensitive channel Piezo1, which triggers calcium influx.”
Animalsstudied in vivo, species not statedhair follicle stem cell
Cell stem cell7 Oct 2021
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Cell Stem Cell
Hair shaft miniaturization causes stem cell depletion through mechanosensory signals mediated by a Piezo1-calcium-TNF-α axis
Experiments in animalsTNF signalling