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- adjective biology Of or pertaining to the
sensing ofmechanical stimuli
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Over the subsequent years, we continued to work on touch, and I was fortunate to have several more people push the work forward, especially the identification of the mechanosensory transducer.
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Among the rest, although DVA does not belong to any of the known circuits, it has been identified as being involved in mechanosensory response and in its absence, the frequency and magnitude of the tap-induced reversal, as well as the acceleration magnitude, is diminished
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raj Kumar Pan et al. 2010
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Caenorhabditis elegans worms slow in the presence of food; this 'basal' slowing is triggered by dopaminergic mechanosensory neurons that detect bacteria.
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Fraley said her future research will be focused specifically on the role of mechanosensory proteins like zyxin on motility, as well as how factors such as gel matrix pore size and stiffness affect cell migration in 3-D.
innovations-report 2010
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Cellular mechanosensory system may yield new insights for cancer therapy
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Rankin CH (1995) Integration of mechanosensory stimuli in
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raj Kumar Pan et al. 2010
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Moreover, different neuronal subsets within the wind-sensitive population respond to different directions of arista deflection caused by air flow and project to different regions of the antennal and mechanosensory motor centre, providing a rudimentary map of wind direction in the brain.
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Using enhancer trap lines targeted to different subsets of Johnston's organ neurons, and a genetically encoded calcium indicator, we show that wind and near-field sound (courtship song) activate distinct populations of Johnston's organ neurons, which project to different regions of the antennal and mechanosensory motor centre in the central brain.
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Here we identify wind-sensitive neurons in Johnston's organ, an antennal mechanosensory structure previously implicated in near-field sound detection (reviewed in refs 5 and 6).
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Using enhancer trap lines targeted to different subsets of Johnston's organ neurons, and a genetically encoded calcium indicator, we show that wind and near-field sound (courtship song) activate distinct populations of Johnston's organ neurons, which project to different regions of the antennal and mechanosensory motor centre in the central brain.
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