Slowly adapting mechanoreceptors in the borders of the human fingernail encode fingertip forces

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 9370-9379

  Birznieks, Ingvars ^a   Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b   Westling, Göran ^c   Johansson, Roland S ^c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; GLABROUS SKIN; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKINFOLD; SLOWLY ADAPTING MECHANORECEPTOR; SLOWLY ADAPTING TYPE 2 MECHANORECEPTOR; STIMULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICROELECTRODES; NAILS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651177569     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0143-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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