Gravity Sensing - Physiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

TRPA channels distinguish gravity sensing from hearing in Johnston's organ.

26 Jul 2009 Although many animal species sense gravity for spatial orientation, the molecular bases remain uncertain. Therefore, we studied Drosophila melanogaster, which possess an inherent upward movement against gravity-negative geotaxis. Negative geotaxis ... Read more...

Gravity dependence of subjective visual vertical variability.

29 Jun 2009 The brain integrates sensory input from the otolith organs, the semicircular canals, and the somatosensory and visual systems to determine self-orientation relative to gravity. Only the otoliths directly sense the gravito-inertial force vector and ... Read more...

Unconstrained shoulder joint position sense does not change with body orientation.

29 Jun 2009 Our knowledge of the role of muscle activation on proprioception is incomplete. Previous work has either focused on comparing active and passive motions or manipulated both muscle activation and joint angles simultaneously. We conducted an ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Gravity Sensing - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• TRPA channels distinguish gravity sensing from hearing in Johnston's organ. 26 Jul 2009
• Gravity dependence of subjective visual vertical variability. 29 Jun 2009
• Unconstrained shoulder joint position sense does not change with body orientation. 29 Jun 2009
• Balance control under different passive contributions of the ankle extensors: quiet standing on inclined surfaces. 7 Jun 2009
• Impaired perception of gravity leads to altered head direction signals: what can we learn from vestibular-deficient mice? 18 May 2009
• A bucket of static vestibular function. 10 May 2009
• Head roll dependent variability of subjective visual vertical and ocular counterroll. 3 May 2009
• The gravity of JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin). 29 Apr 2009
• The neural basis of Drosophila gravity-sensing and hearing. 10 Mar 2009
• Statolith sedimentation kinetics and force transduction to the cortical endoplasmic reticulum in gravity-sensing Arabidopsis columella cells. 8 Mar 2009
• Invertebrate solutions for sensing gravity. 8 Mar 2009
• [Structural models of simple sense organs by the example of first metazoans] 27 Feb 2009
• Gravitaxis of Bursaria truncatella: electrophysiological and behavioural analyses of a large ciliate cell. 11 Dec 2008
• An optimal-control model of vision-gait interaction in a virtual walkway. 7 Dec 2008
• Interhemispheric transfer of predictive force control during grasping in cerebellar disorders. 2 Dec 2008
• A model of the cerebellar sensory--motor control applied to fast human forearm movements. 29 Nov 2008
• Developmental maturation of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits in rat vestibular nuclear neurons responsive to vertical linear acceleration. 29 Nov 2008
• Contributions of the human temporoparietal junction and MT/V5+ to the timing of interception revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. 10 Nov 2008
• [Visual-manual tracking and vestibular function during 7-day dry immersion] 30 Aug 2008
• The primary cilium as a gravitational force transducer and a regulator of transcriptional noise. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Gravity Sensing'

Definition: Process whereby a cell, bodily structure, or organism (animal or plant) receives or detects a gravity stimulus. Gravity sensing plays an important role in the directional growth and development of an organism (GRAVITROPISM).

Descriptor UI: D018466

Alternative terms: Gravity Sensing; Sensing, Gravity; Gravity Perception; Perception, Gravity; Gravisensing;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: G11.561.600.810.255; G15.744.450;

History Note: 2009 (1995)