A new imaging method helps see and study touch nerve endings in mouse skin.
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February 2023 in “bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” Merkel cells stabilize nerve endings in the skin, and they change independently of each other.
Sensory neuron and Merkel cell changes in the skin happen independently during normal skin maintenance.