With the increase in interest deployment of robots unstructured environments to work alongside humans, development human-like sense touch for becomes important. In this work, we implement a multi-channel neuromorphic tactile system that encodes contact events as discrete spike mimic behavior slow adapting mechanoreceptors. We study impact information pooling across artificial mechanoreceptors o...

Somatosensory stimuli guide and shape behavior, from immediate protective reflexes to longer-term learning higher-order processes related pain touch. However, somatosensory inputs are challenging control in awake mammals due the diversity nature of contact stimuli. Application cutaneous is currently limited relatively imprecise methods as well subjective behavioral measures. The strategy we pre...

In the CNS, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is mainly known for its trophic effect both during development and in adulthood. Here, we show than in adult rat supraoptic nucleus (SON), IGF-1 receptor immunoreactivity is present in neurons, whereas IGF-1 immunoreactivity is found principally in astrocytes and more moderately in neurons. In vivo application of IGF-1 within the SON acutely inhi...

29 Activation of muscle metaboreceptors and mechanoreceptors has been shown to independently 30 influence the sweating response, while their integrative control effects remain unclear. We 31 examined the sweating response when the two muscle receptors are concurrently activated in 32 different limbs as well as the blood pressure response. In total, 27 young males performed 33 passive calf muscl...

Nematocytes, the stinging cells of Hydrozoa, can be considered as prototypic mechanosensory hair cells bearing a concentric hair bundle, the cnidocil apparatus. These cells produce typical mechanoreceptor potentials in response to deflection of their cnidocil. Here we show that mechanosensory signals are relayed to neighbouring nematocytes via chemical neurotransmission and that nematocytes rec...