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- noun
sensitivity to amechanical stimulus
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Examples
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It appears that eight hours is sufficient for some osteogenesis to again occur from a successive bout, but it takes 24 hours to achieve a 98% return of mechanosensitivity.
Lonnie Lowery, Ph.D. - Cutting-Edge Muscle Science William Harryman 2009
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Others have proposed and demonstrated the suitability of other systems: chemotaxis of bacteria1; olfaction in insects7; mechanosensitivity of motoriccilia10.
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Such a mechanism would readily explain why tip links and mechanosensitivity disappear in the absence of calcium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Such a mechanism would readily explain why tip links and mechanosensitivity disappear in the absence of calcium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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This new biological function for polycystins as a regulator of cellular pressure enables a clearer understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the mechanosensitivity of cells.
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