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Mechanoreceptor Physiology

Mechanoreceptor Physiology is the subfield of sensory receptor physiology that investigates the functional mechanisms, response properties, and signaling dynamics of mechanoreceptors—the specialized sensory neurons or receptor cells that transduce mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure, stretch, and vibration into neural signals.

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Noise enhancement of information transfer in crayfish mechanoreceptors by stochastic resonance

John K. Douglass, Lon A. Wilkens, Eleni Pantazelou et al. · Nature · 1993 · 1.4K citations

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The sense of flutter-vibration: comparison of the human capacity with response patterns of mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey hand.

William Henry Fox Talbot, I. Darian-Smith, H. H. Kornhuber et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology · 1968 · 1K citations

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Painful neuropathy: altered central processing maintained dynamically by peripheral input

Richard H. Gracely, Sue Lynch, Gary J. Bennett · Pain · 1992 · 789 citations

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The Functional Organization of Cutaneous Low-Threshold Mechanosensory Neurons

Lishi Li, Michael Rutlin, Victoria E. Abraira et al. · Cell · 2011 · 779 citations · Full text

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A <i>Drosophila</i> Mechanosensory Transduction Channel

Richard G. Walker, Aarron Willingham, Charles S. Zuker · Science · 2000 · 701 citations

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  1. AS
    Andrew S. French

    University of Alberta, Canada

    31 publications · 722 citations

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  2. AI
    A. Iggo

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. PH
    Päivi H. Torkkeli

    Dalhousie University, Canada

    13 publications · 361 citations

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  4. UH
    Ulli Höger

    Dalhousie University, Canada

    11 publications · 237 citations

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  5. GR
    Gary R. Lewin

    Max Delbrück Center, Germany

    10 publications · 1.3K citations

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803

  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    22 h-index

    108 publications

    19.8K citations

  2. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    20 h-index

    45 publications

    4K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    20 h-index

    108 publications

    12.1K citations

  4. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    19 h-index

    52 publications

    10.5K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    18 h-index

    56 publications

    4.5K citations

  6. Umeå University

    Umeå, Sweden

    18 h-index

    45 publications

    9.2K citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    43 publications

    4.4K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    16 h-index

    44 publications

    3.5K citations

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  1. The Journal of Physiology

    105 publications · 10.9K citations

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  2. Journal of Neurophysiology

    JN · 131 publications · 13.6K citations

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  3. Brain Research

    62 publications · 3.7K citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Biology

    59 publications · 3.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Neuroscience

    39 publications · 3.3K citations

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