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Morphology of rapidly and slowly adapting mechanoreceptors in the hairless skin of the cat's hind foot.
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The histological structures of the rapidly and slowly adapting mechanoreceptors of group II afferents (RA- and SA-receptors) in the hairless skin of the cat's hind foot showed that structure and function could be correlated as follows.About:
This article is published in Brain Research.The article was published on 1971-05-07. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Merkel nerve ending & Merkel cell.read more
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The Peripheral Nervous System
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Stimulus—response functions of rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors in the human glabrous skin area
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Response of cutaneous sensory units with unmyelinated fibers to noxious stimuli.
P Bessou,Edward R. Perl +1 more
TL;DR: In an attempt to learn more about the range of behavior associated with the terminals of cutaneous C fibers, a number of randomly sele,cted units were surveyed for responses to a variety of graded stimuli.
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The structure and function of a slowly adapting touch corpuscle in hairy skin
A. Iggo,A. R. Muir +1 more
TL;DR: Slowly adapting cutaneous mechanoreceptors, in the cat and primates, have been studied by histological and neurophysiological methods.
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Myelinated afferent fibres responding specifically to noxious stimulation of the skin
Paul R. Burgess,Edward R. Perl +1 more
TL;DR: The characteristics of receptors from the hairy skin of the hind limb of cat were studied by recording from single primary afferent fibres with fine micropipettes with distinctive features of 513 fibres conducting under 51 m/sec.
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Coding of somatic sensory input by vibrissae neurons in the rat's trigeminal ganglion
TL;DR: These experiments show that when a rat encounters objects which deflect its mobile or stationary vibrissae, a relatively large population of first-order somatic sensory neurons is capable of coding the following aspects of mechanical stimuli: peripheral location, deflection direction, onset, termination, amplituded, velocity, duration, repetition rate, and temporal pattern.
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