Sentences with word «mechanoreceptor»

These are tiny receptors called mechanoreceptors.

The scientists discovered that a class of mechanoreceptors in the skin that detect painful mechanical stimuli are part of a feedback circuit in which excitatory neurons that produce the hormone somatostatin are inhibited by neurons that synthesize dynorphin (a natural analgesic molecule that produces effects similar to opiates).

That being said, the properties of fascia are very unique with several types of mechanoreceptors and if stimulated beyond a certain capacity, can become nociceptors.

Inspired by natural mechanoreceptors, researchers led by Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, set out to make sensors that churn out digital signals directly.

Yet although these advances have restored a rudimentary sense of touch, the sensors and signals are very different from those sent by mechanoreceptors, natural touch sensors in the skin.

The 2 - minute rest period may have allowed for a reduction in deep mechanoreceptor activation, leading to a restoration of the H - reflex, allowing for normal force production.

Similarly, mechanoreceptor fibers that project to the spinal cord from a missing limb might spur erroneous pain signals.

For starters, natural mechanoreceptors put out what amounts to a digital signal.

On page 314 of this issue, Tee et al. (3) report a Digital Tactile System («DiTact») based on a low - power flexible organic transistor circuit that transduces pressure stimuli into oscillating signals like those generated by skin mechanoreceptors.

This type of touch activates low - threshold unmyelinated mechanoreceptors, known as C - tactile afferents, which have been proposed to play a unique role in hedonic valence and emotion of touch.

Mechanoreceptors mediate a wide variety of physiological processes, such as hearing, touch, proprioception, and blood flow regulation.

A skin - inspired organic digital mechanoreceptor.

Thousands of coiled fine - touch mechanoreceptors called Meissner's corpuscles, the most important sensory component of the foreskin, encapsulated Vater - Pacinian cells, Merkel's cells, nociceptors, and branches of the dorsal nerve and perineal nerve.

Stretched muscle fibers activate mechanoreceptors, which elicit cardiovascular adjustments through parasympathetic withdrawal and sympathetic activation (6).

Whiskers or sinus hairs or vibrissae act as slow - adapting mechanoreceptors, sending signals to the brain about skin pressure and directional skin movement.

In addition, swelling can cause distention in joint capsules and other tissues, and excitation of nervous system components called mechanoreceptors — which can increase pain.

The upshot was that — just like the signals from natural mechanoreceptors — when more pressure is applied, the oscillators turn out pulses at a higher frequency.

This finding begins to explain how a light touch can cause discomfort in someone with allodynia: if something is awry in the pain circuitry, then the sensations of touch that normally travels through the mechanoreceptors could instead activate other neurons that trigger a pain signal.

One messenger RNA was isolated that is expressed in every mechanoreceptor sensory cluster of the Aplysia central nervous system.

This tells us it's not just the mechanoreceptors in the skin, but receptors in the ligaments, knuckles, wrist, elbow and shoulder that could be enabling humans to sense minute differences using touch,» he added.

Nagoya, Japan (Scicasts)-- When a fingertip explores the surface of a material, mechanoreceptors called Meissner's corpuscles (MCs) near the surface of the skin mainly respond to low - frequency vibration stimuli...

Proprioceptors (also called mechanoreceptors) are the source of all proprioception, which is the perception of one's own body position and movement.

The H - reflex depression was not dependent on mechanical stimulation of cutaneous mechanoreceptors but may have been so because of the involvement of deep mechanoreceptors (17,23,34).

Movement of the spine dictates how information is received in the brain through tiny little nerve ending's called mechanoreceptors.