"Touch" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.
| Descriptor ID |
D014110
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.816.850 G11.561.790.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch- Touch
- Sense of Touch
- Touch Sense
- Touch Senses
- Taction
- Tactions
- Tactile Sense
- Sense, Tactile
- Senses, Tactile
- Tactile Senses
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Brannick S, Vibell JF. Motion aftereffects in vision, audition, and touch, and their crossmodal interactions. Neuropsychologia. 2023 Nov 05; 190:108696.
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Gundlach KA, Watson GM. Self/Non-Self Recognition Affects Cnida Discharge and Tentacle Contraction in the Sea Anemone Haliplanella luciae. Biol Bull. 2018 10; 235(2):83-90.
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Darbari DS, Vaughan KJ, Roskom K, Seamon C, Diaw L, Quinn M, Conrey A, Schechter AN, Haythornthwaite JA, Waclawiw MA, Wallen GR, Belfer I, Taylor JG. Central sensitization associated with low fetal hemoglobin levels in adults with sickle cell anemia. Scand J Pain. 2017 10; 17:279-286.
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Han KA, Kim YC. Courtship behavior: the right touch stimulates the proper song. Curr Biol. 2010 Jan 12; 20(1):R25-8.
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Liu T, Kim K, Li C, Barr MM. FMRFamide-like neuropeptides and mechanosensory touch receptor neurons regulate male sexual turning behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurosci. 2007 Jul 04; 27(27):7174-82.
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Sutherland MT. The hand and the ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex. J Neurosci. 2006 Aug 09; 26(32):8217-8.
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Eimer M, Forster B, Vibell J. Cutaneous saltation within and across arms: a new measure of the saltation illusion in somatosensation. Percept Psychophys. 2005 Apr; 67(3):458-68.
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Bermejo R, Szwed M, Friedman W, Ahissar E, Zeigler HP. One whisker whisking: unit recording during conditioned whisking in rats. Somatosens Mot Res. 2004 Sep-Dec; 21(3-4):183-7.
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Halpern LR, Kaban LB, Dodson TB. Perioperative neurosensory changes associated with treatment of mandibular fractures. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2004 May; 62(5):576-81.
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Landers M, Pytte C, Zeigler HP. Reversible blockade of rodent whisking: Botulinum toxin as a tool for developmental studies. Somatosens Mot Res. 2002; 19(4):358-63.