Different indentation velocities activate different mechanoreceptors in humans

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 858-868

  Simonetti, Stefano ^a   Dahl, Kristian ^a   Krarup, Christian ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compound sensory action potential; Fast adapting mechanoreceptors; Indentation velocity; Meissner corpuscles; Pacini corpuscles

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SLOW ADAPTING RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEDIAN NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN RECEPTOR; SURAL NERVE; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; COCAINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PACINIAN CORPUSCLES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SKIN; SURAL NERVE; TOUCH;

EID: 0031745488     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199807)21:7<858::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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