Lanceolate ending
A lanceolate ending is a neuron ending that wraps around a hair follicle.[1] Specific kinds of touch-sensing neurons in skin use them to respond to hair being touched or brushed.[1] Lanceolate endings have been seen in all mammals thus far studied as of 2021.[2] There are multiple kinds of lanceolate endings: in mice, for example, there is one for each of the three types of hair -- guard hair, awl hair, and zigzag hair.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Bleicher, Ariel (2025-04-16). "Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "The Beauty of Touch | Harvard Medicine Magazine". magazine.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Fleming, Michael S.; Luo, Wenqin (2013-08-01). "The anatomy, function, and development of mammalian Aβ low-threshold mechanoreceptors". Frontiers in Biology. 8 (4): 408–420. doi:10.1007/s11515-013-1271-1. ISSN 1674-7984. PMC 3873732. PMID 24376457.
- Takahashi-Iwanaga, H. (2000-10-16). "Three-dimensional microanatomy of longitudinal lanceolate endings in rat vibrissae". The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 426 (2): 259–269. doi:10.1002/1096-9861(20001016)426:2<259::aid-cne7>3.0.co;2-n. ISSN 0021-9967. PMID 10982467.
- Li, Lishi; Ginty, David D. (2014-02-25). "The structure and organization of lanceolate mechanosensory complexes at mouse hair follicles". eLife. 3: e01901. doi:10.7554/eLife.01901. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 3930909. PMID 24569481.