Somatosensory Nerve Ending Physiology

Encoding in Somatic Sense Organs

Muscle Spindle, Pacininan Corpuscle, Mechanical Transduction, Sensory Transduction, Excitable currents.

Dr. Michael Chua & Dr. Carlton C. Hunt

Muscle Spindle

FM 1-43 - membrane labeling
- z-series - individual slices (1 um section steps)
- pitch rotation

FM 2-10
- spindle

Voltage gated Sodium Channel Antibody labeling
- z-series - terminals - individual slices
- rotation (pitch) rotation (yaw)

Pacinian Corpuscle

FM 1-43 - rat pc - cat pc - the blimp - the blimp (big)

Voltage gated Sodium Channel Antibody labeling


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