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It is shown on the basis of simple physical principles that the parameters determining the shape of the nerve ending of the Pacinian corpuscle are optimal.
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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, N. I. Lobachevskii Gor'kii State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 423–429, July–August, 1977.
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Il'inskii, O.B., Krylov, B.V. & Cherepnov, V.L. Investigation of the optimal shape of the nerve ending of the encapsulated tissue mechanoreceptor (Pacinian corpuscle). Neurophysiology 9, 326–331 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063700
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