From stress and strain to spikes: Mechanotransduction in spider slit sensilla

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 739-752

  French, Andrew S ^a   Torkkeli, Päivi H ^a   Seyfarth, Ernst August ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Encoding; Mechanoreception; Noise analysis; Peripheral synapses; Sensory adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; ELASTICITY; INNERVATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIDER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEURONS, EFFERENT; SENSE ORGANS; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0036881804     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0363-1     Document Type: Review

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