The elegance of prickly sensations.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 36409070.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.84161 and PMC identifier 9678355.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Neurons sensing harmful mechanical forces in the larvae of fruit flies have a striking architecture of dendrites that are optimized to detect pointy objects.
Medical subject headings
- Drosophila
- Neurons