Affiliation:
1. Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Freeby Lane, Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire LE14 4RT, UK
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius for their research on receptor channels responsible for the perception of touch and temperature. Somatosensation, an overarching sense that enables us to safely interface with the physical forces around and within us, is the fourth sensory modality to be recognized by the Nobel Committee. The story of the discovery of TRP and PIEZO channels, and subsequent investigations into their myriad roles in the perception of noxious and mild temperature, touch, pain, pressure and body position, is an archetype for how translational research into human and animal health is built on a foundation of excellence in basic science.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous),Medicine (miscellaneous),Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
Cited by
11 articles.
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