Absence of functional collateral sprouting of mechanoreceptor axons into denervated areas of mammalian skin Article

Horch, K. (1981). Absence of functional collateral sprouting of mechanoreceptor axons into denervated areas of mammalian skin . 74(1), 313-317. 10.1016/0014-4886(81)90170-9

cited authors

  • Horch, K

fiu authors

abstract

  • Recordings made from individual type I cutaneous mechanoreceptors before and up to 9 months after neurectomy showed that surrounding, intact, low-threshold mechanoreceptive nerve fibers did not sprout to functionally innervate the denervated area of skin. © 1981.

publication date

  • January 1, 1981

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 313

end page

  • 317

volume

  • 74

issue

  • 1