Vibratory adaptation of cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferents

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3023-3036

  Bensmaia S J ^a,b   Leung, Y Y ^c   Hsiao, S S ^a,b,c   Johnson, K O ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE; VIBRATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 27144533993     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00002.2005     Document Type: Article

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