Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus complex

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1556, 2004, Pages 2509-2516

  Mitchinson, Ben ^a   Gurney, Kevin N ^a   Redgrave, Peter ^a   Melhuish, Chris ^b   Pipe, Anthony G ^b   Pearson, Martin ^b   Gilhespy, Ian ^b   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Follicle; Model; Mystacial; Rat; Trigeminal; Whisker

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANORECEPTION; MODEL;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HAIR FOLLICLE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 16644393209     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2882     Document Type: Article

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