The team's experiments reveal that high-frequency mechanical vibrations picked up by ultra-sensitive mechanoreceptors in the skin called Pacinian corpuscles are not exclusively channeled into the ...

To explore the role of two types of mechanoreceptors in the skin — Pacinian corpuscles and Meissner corpuscles — to the differing responses of the two brain regions to high- and low-frequency ...

W. R. LOEWENSTEIN & R. ALTAMIRANO-ORREGO Nature 178, 1292–1293 (1956) Cite this article 64 Accesses 58 Citations Metrics ...

To explore the role of two types of mechanoreceptors in the skin - Pacinian corpuscles and Meissner corpuscles - to the differing responses of the two brain regions to high- and low-frequency ...

In humans and other primates, Pacinian corpuscles lie deep in the underlayers of both glabrous and hairy skin and concentrate near joints. (In mice, they primarily reside near the wrist, ankle and ...

Everything goes through Pacinian corpuscles In a second step, the researchers sought to identify the origin of the somatosensory stimuli involved by performing a detailed histological analysis of ...

In the Pacinian corpuscle this may be done by the aid of drugs, by changing the ionic environment of the receptor 1 or, as here reported, by taking advantage of differences in duration of the ...

Scientists shed new light on how we perceive vibrations through touch New research challenges established views of how specific receptor channels work together in response to vibrotactile stimuli ...

Debrégeas was especially curious about one particular type of mechanoreceptor — Pacinian corpuscles — which occur about 0.08 inches (2 millimeters) below the surface of the skin in fingertips.

Birznieks, I. et al. (2019) Tactile sensory channels over-ruled by frequency decoding system that utilizes spike pattern regardless of receptor type. eLife. doi. org/ 10. 7554/ eLife. 46510 ...

Meanwhile, mammals, including elephants, have ultra-sensitive vibration sensors in their fingertips, the Pacinian corpuscle, which served as the early warning system for animals during the ...

Pacinian corpuscles are known to transduce high frequency vibrations in mammals and are densely expressed in the dermis of primate fingertips.