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The cell biology of touch

The sense of touch detects forces that bombard the body’s surface. In metazoans, an assortment of morphologically and functionally distinct mechanosensory cell types are tuned to selectively respond to diverse mechanical stimuli, such as vibration, stretch, and pressure. A comparative evolutionary a...

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Autores principales: Lumpkin, Ellen A., Marshall, Kara L., Nelson, Aislyn M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20956378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201006074