Spider mechanoreceptors

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 415-422

  Barth, Friedrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CELL MEMBRANE; FORCE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIDER; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; HAIR; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOUCH;

EID: 4043101085     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.07.005     Document Type: Review

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