Christina Mecca, PhD
@christinamecca.bsky.social
Medical College of Wisconsin
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|Stucky Lab 🔬🥼
|Food and Gym Enthusiast🍴🏋️♀️
|Pet mom to Lucy 🐶, Karl & Max😺
|Proud Stucky-Cookie 🍪
|Stucky Lab 🔬🥼
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Keratinocyte Pannexin-1 is essential for Mechanical Hypersensitivity following Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684945v1
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Keratinocyte Pannexin-1 is essential for Mechanical Hypersensitivity following Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684945v1
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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The majority of people who responded to a poll in Nature say they’re now using Bluesky. They’re using it to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research. 🧪
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The majority of people who responded to a poll in Nature say they’re now using Bluesky. They’re using it to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research. 🧪
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Out now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! 👋 Our latest work on #touch and vibration sensing in rodent #mechanoreceptors.
A beautiful experimental and computational collaboration thanks to the whole Prescott Lab team.
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
A beautiful experimental and computational collaboration thanks to the whole Prescott Lab team.
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
Encoding of Vibrotactile Stimuli by Mechanoreceptors in Rodent Glabrous Skin
Somatosensory coding in rodents has been mostly studied in the whisker system and hairy skin, whereas the function of low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMRs) in the rodent glabrous skin has received sc...
www.jneurosci.org
December 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Out now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! 👋 Our latest work on #touch and vibration sensing in rodent #mechanoreceptors.
A beautiful experimental and computational collaboration thanks to the whole Prescott Lab team.
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
A beautiful experimental and computational collaboration thanks to the whole Prescott Lab team.
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
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Welcome to the 20M+ new folks who just joined BSky!! 🔥 Here's a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack for those interested. Please RT so that our community can find us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
November 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Welcome to the 20M+ new folks who just joined BSky!! 🔥 Here's a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack for those interested. Please RT so that our community can find us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG
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I've joined the 🦋 migration! Here's a pain and somatosensory researchers starter pack. Comment or message me to be added #neuroscience #neuroskyence #pain 🧠 🔬 go.bsky.app/N3EmVKA
November 15, 2024 at 3:23 AM
I've joined the 🦋 migration! Here's a pain and somatosensory researchers starter pack. Comment or message me to be added #neuroscience #neuroskyence #pain 🧠 🔬 go.bsky.app/N3EmVKA