Harvard Med Researchers Probe Essential Sense of Touch

Harvard Medical School

The endings of sensory neurons that detect touch in the skin. Image: Ginty lab

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The endings of sensory neurons that detect hair deflection and touch around hair follicles. Image: Ginty lab

A mouse Meissner corpuscle, a sensory structure that detects light touch and low-frequency vibrations. Image: Ginty lab

Human Meissner corpuscles. Image: Ginty lab

A Pacinian corpuscle, a sensory structure that detects high-frequency vibrations in the skin. Image: Ginty lab

The endings of sensory neurons that detect touch in the skin. Image: Ginty lab

By CATHERINE CARUSO

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