Ultrastructure of the skin mechanorecept
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Cheng Hong; Yang Guo-Hua; Harold Heatwole
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The ultrastructure of two kinds of mechanoreceptive organs, pit organs and neuromasts, in the skin of adult giant salamanders (Andrias davidianus) was studied by transmission electron microscopy. Neuromasts and pit organs differ in their types of synapses, the spatial distribution of kinocilia on se