Sentences with phrase «natural mechanoreceptors»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.