Semiconductor gel in shark sense organs?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 426, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 166-170

  Fields, R Douglas ^a,b   Fields, Kyle D ^b   Fields, Melanie C ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ampullae of Lorenzini; Chimaeras; Electrode potential; Electroreception; Ion channels; Lateral line; Rays; Sensory reception; Sensory transduction; Sharks; Temperature receptors; Thermoelectric semiconduction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMPULLAE OF LORENZINI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHARK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSE ORGANS; SHARKS;

EID: 34848920825     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.08.064     Document Type: Article

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