Proposal of the stretch detection hypothesis of the meissner corpuscle

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5024 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 245-254

  Kuroki, Shinobu ^a   Kajimoto, Hiroyuki ^b   Nii, Hideaki ^a   Kawakami, Naoki ^a   Tachi, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptor; nerve activity; strain

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION;

MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE ACTIVITIES; NERVE ACTIVITY; NORMAL STRAINS; TACTILE SENSATIONS;

STRAIN;

EID: 54249158758     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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