… vibrissae in the rat, common mole-rat, and naked mole-rat. The naked mole-rat lacks all
vellus hairs (VH) and most guard hairs compared with the rat and common mole-rat. The few …

… ‘hairs’ on the body of naked mole-rats provide an ideal detector array for the assessment
of touch guided orienting behavior. Naked mole-rats are fully subterranean rodents that are …

… In this chapter we will briefly summarize recent findings on somatosensory organization
in naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber). We will compare this information with previous …

… (B) Summary of typical distribution of somatic vibrissae on an adult naked mole-rat. Dotted …
somatosensory guidance of movements. We first tested the hypothesis that the naked mole-rat …

… Further evidence that image formation is an unlikely function of the naked mole-rat visual
system comes from a recent study showing that the somatosensory cortex of the naked mole-rat …

… Like many other underground mammals such as the star-nosed mole, naked mole-rats
have a highly derived somatosensory system. This system consists of increased capabilities …

… the naked mole-rat cortex as compared with the mouse, resulting in the large and posteriorly
shifted somatosensory … In mole rats, the primary somatosensory cortex is exceptionally large …

… somatosensory world of the naked mole-rat, a research area that we first started to pursue
after finding that naked mole-rats … in the somatosensory system of the naked mole-rat and …

… inputs to the superior colliculus make the somatosensory system of the naked mole rat an
excellent system for studying somatosensory processing as it relates to orientating behavior. …

… equally specialized and expanded somatosensory cortex. In a … somatosensory cortex (S1)
in naked mole-rats and compared the sizes of various body part representations in mole-rats …

… naked mole-rat. This suggests that mu and delta receptors modulate thermal pain in a different
way than kappa receptors in the naked mole-rat… in the somatosensory cortex [6], [12], [17]. …

… Comer, Thom Park, Don Murphy, Paul Malchow, and Big Dave Wirtshafter. I especially want
to thank my advisor Chris Comer … Naked mole-rats display a novel somatosensory receptor …

… Naked mole-rats show numerous adaptations to life underground including extreme tolerance
of hypoxia, acid insensitivity, as well as independence of photoendocrine systems. Here …

… , the naked mole-rat sensory cortex is dominated by somatosensory inputs, with an expansion
of somatosensory … Notably, there is an unusually large amount of somatosensory cortex …

… Recently, naked mole-rats have received considerable attention as the longest living
rodent known, and some of these brain specializations may be potentially important to their …

… Naked mole-rats have a highly developed somatosensory system to detect external stimuli.
… source of somatosensory information comes from the facial vibrissae. Naked mole-rats also …

… function common to the entire naked mole-rat nervous system, ie do naked mole-rats have an
unusual … that naked-mole rats produce themselves to conserve brain energy: what a clever …

… By this view, the ecologic specialization of the naked mole-rat is seen in the sizes of the
cerebellar transverse zones, reflecting the relative importance of somatosensory (eg, the width …

… Given the known behavioral and sensory importance of tactile inputs from the incisors of
naked mole-rats, we hypothesized that an extensive (but fractured) somatosensory …

… Here we report an exception: the African naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a eusocial
rodent in which nearly all members of large colonies are reproductively suppressed (Jarvis, …