Animal models and experimental medicine and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021—TRPV and PIEZO receptors for temperature and touch sensation

[摘要] For decades, experimental animal models have been powerful toolsfor biomedical research and have supported most of the physiological or medical achievements recognized by Nobel Prizes, includingthe research that won this year's Physiology or Medicine Prize. On4th October 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021was awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian "fortheir discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch."1 Theirdiscoveries have profoundly changed our view of how we sense theworld around us.

[学科分类] 机械工程学