A mechanoreceptor, also called mechanoceptor, is a sensory receptor that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion. Mechanoreceptors are innervated...
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A mechanoreceptor is a sensory organ or cell that responds to mechanical stimulation such as touch, pressure, vibration, and sound from both the internal...
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major types of mechanoreceptors (specialized nerve ending) for mechanical sensation) found in mammalian skin. This type of mechanoreceptor is found in both...
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Tactile corpuscles or Meissner's corpuscles are a type of mechanoreceptor discovered by anatomist Georg Meissner (1829–1905) and Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle...
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corpuscle, Ruffini ending or Ruffini corpuscle is a slowly adapting mechanoreceptor located in the cutaneous tissue between the dermal papillae and the...
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Areola (section Mechanoreceptors)
Breastfeeding by the baby stimulates slowly and rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors that are densely packed around the areolar region. Paget's disease...
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organs of gastropods include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no hearing. In terrestrial gastropods (land snails...
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are a part of the somatosensory system. Cutaneous receptors include mechanoreceptors (pressure or distortion), nociceptors (pain), and thermoreceptors (temperature)...
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insects, flies have chemoreceptors that detect smell and taste, and mechanoreceptors that respond to touch. The third segments of the antennae and the maxillary...
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changes. The respiratory center receives input from chemoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, the cerebral cortex, and the hypothalamus in order to regulate the...
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interpretation in the brain. When an action potential is generated by a mechanoreceptor in the tissue, the action potential will travel along the peripheral...
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Sensory neuron (section Mechanoreceptors)
hair cells (hearing and balance), and a number of other different mechanoreceptors for touch and proprioception (stretch, distortion and stress). The...
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Stimulus modality (section Mechanoreceptors)
achieved through the response of mechanoreceptors in the skin that detect physical stimuli. The response from a mechanoreceptor detecting pressure can be experienced...
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and body), the different types of sensory receptor cells (such as mechanoreceptors, photoreceptors, chemoreceptors, thermoreceptors) in sensory organs...
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the whisker primary afferents are found here. These afferents are mechanoreceptor cells that fire in response to whisker deflection.[citation needed]...
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papillae come out of sockets that are characterized with the function of mechanoreceptor, and contact chemoreceptors, which allows them to respond to stimuli...
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integrally connected. Proprioception is determined by using standard mechanoreceptors (especially ruffini corpuscles (stretch) and transient receptor potential...
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(1976). "[Properties of the mechanoreceptors of the nipple of the guinea pig mammary gland. (Rapidly adapting mechanoreceptor units)]". Fiziologicheskii...
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of sense organs that can detect touch (mechanoreceptors), smell and taste; and small, hairlike mechanoreceptors that can detect air movement so as to "hear"...
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electroreceptors are located in rostrocaudal rows in the skin of the bill, while mechanoreceptors for touch are uniformly distributed across the bill. The electrosensory...
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instance the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor for nicotine, or the mechanoreceptor for mechanical pressure. However, stimuli (such as temperatures or...
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S2CID 5038227. Wood, D.C. (1988). "Habituation in Stentor produced by mechanoreceptor channel modification". Journal of Neuroscience. 8 (7): 2254–8. doi:10...
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an insect lands on the trap of the plant, it triggers a hair-like mechanoreceptor. This receptor then activates an action potential that lasts around...
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special group of nerve fiber endings and serves as a very sensitive mechanoreceptor for touch sensation. Each hair plexus forms a network around a hair...
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either external or internal. Receptors include thermoreceptors and mechanoreceptors. Control centers include the respiratory center and the renin-angiotensin...
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proper blood pressure can be maintained. Baroreceptors are a type of mechanoreceptor sensory neuron that are excited by a stretch of the blood vessel. Thus...
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may lead to shortness of breath including via ASIC chemoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, and lung receptors. It is thought that three main components contribute...
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re-organization of the nociceptors, mechanoreceptors and interneurons, leading to the transmission of pain information by mechanoreceptors A different study reports...
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configurations that are present in the superficial portion of the dermis. Mechanoreceptors are found within the interlocks of the epidermis with dermal ridges...
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electricity-related abilitiesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Mechanoreceptor – Sensory receptor cell responding to mechanical pressure or strain...
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