... between birds and mammals in gene expression associated with K + clearance. Mechanotransduction Avian Evolution Inner ear Potassium Slc12 K + is the major charge ion in the vertebrate inner ear. Its apical influx into hair cells initiates mechanotransduction in both the auditory...

.... Alternative splicing Body weight sensing Mechanotransduction Muscle plasticity Scaling Tensegrity The design of most animal locomotor systems appears to be constrained mainly by body weight and associated considerations of durability. The effect of gravity, the one truly constant environmental...

... action potential across the vacuole membrane. The mechanotransduction process initiating this action potential is unknown. The present study investigated the role of Ca 2+ in the mechanotransduction process regulating bioluminescence in the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum . Calcium ionophores...

...M.L. Knothe Tate; R. Steck; M. R. Forwood; P. Niederer ABSTRACT Load-induced extravascular fluid flow has been postulated to play a role in mechanotransduction of physiological loads at the cellular level. Furthermore, the displaced fluid serves as a carrier for metabolites, nutrients, mineral...

... mechanotransduction response kinetics Paramecium caudatum © The Company of Biologists Limited 1998 27 4 1998 24 6 1998 * Author for correspondence (e-mail: machemer@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de ) ...