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In this study, researchers identified two types of potassium channels, BK and Kv4.2, in rat Merkel cells and reported that these channels play important roles in repolarizing action potentials and maintaining resting membrane potentials, potentially influencing tactile encoding in these cells.

In this study, cryopreserved mouse whisker hair follicles were shown to maintain their hair growth potential and functional recovery, with DMSO being more effective than glycerol for cryopreservation.

This study found that whisker follicle stem cells transplanted to injured spinal cords in mice contributed to healing and unexpectedly grew hair at the injury site.

In this study, transplanted whisker follicles from ND-GFP mice aided spinal cord repair in injured mice, and surprisingly, also grew long hair shafts at the site of transplantation.

This study established a novel in vivo "whisker follicle microinjection assay" using mouse whiskers to evaluate hair growth and pigmentation effects of various chemicals and proteins, identifying minoxidil, ruxolitinib, and RSPO1 as growth promoters, while deoxyarbutin inhibited pigmentation and Nbl1 emerged as a growth inhibitor.