Spatio-temporal skin strain distributions evoke low variability spike responses in cuneate neurons

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 93, 2014, Pages

  Hayward, Vincent ^a   Terekhov, Alexander V ^a   Wong, Sheng Chao ^a   Geborek, Pontus ^b   Bengtsson, Fredrik ^b   Jörntell, Henrik ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contact mechanics; Cuneate nucleus; Spatio temporal skin stimulation

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DEFORMATION;

CONTACT MECHANICS; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDINGS; RESPONSE VARIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEMS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STIMULATION TECHNIQUES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NERVE CELL; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN; SKIN STIMULATION; SKIN SURFACE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPIKE; ANIMAL; CAT; CONTACT MECHANICS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SKIN STIMULATION;

CONTACT MECHANICS; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SKIN STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; SKIN;

EID: 84897016135     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.1015     Document Type: Article

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