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SUBMITTER: Yarmolinsky DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5145739 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yarmolinsky David A DA Peng Yueqing Y Pogorzala Leah A LA Rutlin Michael M Hoon Mark A MA Zuker Charles S CS
Neuron 20161110 5
Perception of the thermal environment begins with the activation of peripheral thermosensory neurons innervating the body surface. To understand how temperature is represented in vivo, we used genetically encoded calcium indicators to measure temperature-evoked responses in hundreds of neurons across the trigeminal ganglion. Our results show how warm, hot, and cold stimuli are represented by distinct population responses, uncover unique functional classes of thermosensory neurons mediating heat ...[more]