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Lamellar cells in Pacinian and Meissner corpuscles are touch sensors
2020-08-24
Abstract excerpt
The skin covering the human palm and other specialized tactile organs contains a high density of mechanosensory corpuscles tuned to detect transient pressure and vibration. These corpuscles comprise a sensory afferent neuron surrounded by lamellar cells 1-3 . The neuronal afferent is thought to be the mechanical sensor within the corpuscle, whereas the function of lamellar cells is unknown 2,4,5 . Here we show t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 85df8e94-ef91-57af-80df-156c2d828a24
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.24.265231