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Publisher Correction: Club-like receptors respond to light touch but not to whisking - Nature Communications

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By Taiga Muramoto, Takahiro Furuta, Taro Koike, Knarik Bagdasarian, Sotatsu Tonomura, Aya Takenaka, Yosky Kataoka, Mitsuyo Maeda, Asami Eguchi, Masaaki Kitada, Kenzo Kumamoto, Ehud Ahissar, Satomi Ebara
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Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67514-w, published online 24 December 2025 In Fig. 1a of this article the tip of the glass pipette was incorrectly depicted as elongated and sharply pointed, penetrating the trigeminal tract; the original and corrected figure are shown below. The original article has been updated.
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Club-like receptors respond to light touch but not to whisking

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By Taiga Muramoto, Takahiro Furuta, Taro Koike, Knarik Bagdasarian, Sotatsu Tonomura, Aya Takenaka, Yosky Kataoka, Mitsuyo Maeda, Asami Eguchi, Masaaki Kitada, Kenzo Kumamoto, Ehud Ahissar, Satomi Ebara
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Abstract Rodents explore their environment by actively whisking and contacting objects with their whiskers. Each whisker follicle contains hundreds of mechanoreceptors, but how specific afferents distinguish between self-motion and touch remains unclear. Here, using artificial whisking in male rats, intra-axonal recordings, and morphological reconstruction, we identify a distinct mechanoreceptor subtype—club-like endings—that respond exclusively to touch and remain silent during whisking.
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What Do Sensory Organs Tell the Brain?

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By Avner Wallach, Satomi Ebara, Ehud Ahissar
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To use the Enhanced view of this article, please enable JavaScript on in your browser and refresh the page. PreviewWhat Do Sensory Organs Tell the Brain? Avner WallachxAvner WallachSearch for articles by this authorAffiliationsDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science and Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada, , © 2017 Elsevier Inc.
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