Threshold for detecting temperature changes in a spider thermoreceptor

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2608-2613

  Ehn, Rudolf ^a   Tichy, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIDER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMORECEPTOR;

EID: 0029998093     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.4.2608     Document Type: Article

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