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Mechano-electric Transduction in the Pacinian Corpuscle. Initiation of Sensory Impulses in Mechanoreceptors

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Principles of Receptor Physiology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((SENSORY,volume 1))

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Mechanical stimuli have so widespread an effect on living things that there is hardly an organism which is not endowed with some mechanism to sense such stimuli. Even primitive single-cell organisms are mechano-receptive, and several kinds of non-nervous cells of higher organisms show this property at least to some degree. As a further refinement, specialized and highly mechanosensitive structures have evolved in higher organisms. The essential element in all of these structures is a dendrite, alone or associated with satellite cells.

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Loewenstein, W.R. (1971). Mechano-electric Transduction in the Pacinian Corpuscle. Initiation of Sensory Impulses in Mechanoreceptors. In: Loewenstein, W.R. (eds) Principles of Receptor Physiology. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65063-5_9

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