Mathematical Sciences: Analysis of Biomathematical Models inSensory Physiology
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Mechanoreceptors in animals receive mechanical stimuli which                are transformed into electrical responses.  Research projects                   associated with this proposal are motivated by the study  the                   principal investigator has made on a particular (tactile)                       receptor, the Pacinian corpuscle.  Pacinian corpuscles receive                  mechanical stimuli in the form of displacement, hence stress, on                an outer capsule composed of many layers of elastic membrane with               fluid between these layers.  One project is to analyze a model                  equation for the pressure field in the capsule derived via                      homogenization techniques under various boundary and initial                    conditions.  Evidence supports the hypothesis that pressure                     transmitted through the capsule puts stress on the excitable                    dendritic membrane, which may possess a strain-activated ionic                  channel.  The mathematical models will be refined to by comparing               theoretical predictions with observations.
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