The regularity of sustained firing reveals two populations of 1 slowly adapting touch receptors in mouse hairy skin
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3 Scott A. Wellnitz, Daine R. Lesniak, Gregory J. Gerling and Ellen A. Lumpkin 4 5 Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 6 Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 7 Virginia 22904 8 Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and of Molecular and Human Genetics, 9 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 10 11 Running title: Slowly adapting touch receptors in mice 12 13 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: 14
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The regularity of sustained firing reveals two populations of slowly adapting touch receptors in mouse hairy skin.
Touch is initiated by diverse somatosensory afferents that innervate the skin. The ability to manipulate and classify receptor subtypes is prerequisite for elucidating sensory mechanisms. Merkel cell-neurite complexes, which distinguish shapes and textures, are experimentally tractable mammalian touch receptors that mediate slowly adapting type I (SAI) responses. The assessment of SAI function ...
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