Nagoya, Japan - When a fingertip explores the surface of a material, mechanoreceptors called Meissner's corpuscles (MCs) near the surface of the skin mainly respond to low-frequency vibration stimuli ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new technique for detecting a painful nerve condition known as neuropathy, which affects millions of people with diabetes and many other patients as well. The painless ...

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Efficacy of Skin-Directed Therapy for Cutaneous Metastases From Advanced Cancer: A Meta-Analysis QST results were collected for 27 patients with a diagnosis of MM and compared with data collected from ...

...mean bump detection threshold for patients with ... neuropathy was significantly higher than in healthy controls... Researchers at the University of Minnesota, USA have developed a simple device ...