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Publication : Keratinocytes can modulate and directly initiate nociceptive responses.

First Author  Baumbauer KM Year  2015
Journal  Elife Volume  4
PubMed ID  26329459 Mgi Jnum  J:226914
Mgi Id  MGI:5699198 Doi  10.7554/eLife.09674
Citation  Baumbauer KM, et al. (2015) Keratinocytes can modulate and directly initiate nociceptive responses. Elife 4
abstractText  How thermal, mechanical and chemical stimuli applied to the skin are transduced into signals transmitted by peripheral neurons to the CNS is an area of intense study. Several studies indicate that transduction mechanisms are intrinsic to cutaneous neurons and that epidermal keratinocytes only modulate this transduction. Using mice expressing channelrhodopsin (ChR2) in keratinocytes we show that blue light activation of the epidermis alone can produce action potentials (APs) in multiple types of cutaneous sensory neurons including SA1, A-HTMR, CM, CH, CMC, CMH and CMHC fiber types. In loss of function studies, yellow light stimulation of keratinocytes that express halorhodopsin reduced AP generation in response to naturalistic stimuli. These findings support the idea that intrinsic sensory transduction mechanisms in epidermal keratinocytes can directly elicit AP firing in nociceptive as well as tactile sensory afferents and suggest a significantly expanded role for the epidermis in sensory processing.
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