Mechanosensing Piezo channels in tissue homeostasis including their role in lungs

Piezo channels are deemed to constitute one of the most important family of mechanosensing ion channels since their discovery in 2010. With recent advances in identifying their topological structure and the discovery of the agonist Yoda1 as well as the specific inhibitor GsMTx4, it is now possible t...

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Main Authors: Ming Zhong, Yulia Komarova, Jalees Rehman, Asrar B. Malik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-06-01
Series:Pulmonary Circulation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2045894018767393