If the epidermis is elastically squished, then a 10nm amplitude vibration from texture scanning will be perfectly translated, like Newton’s cradle, to the mechanoreceptor.
And how much does the mechanoreceptor need to displace to change to an open-channel conformation? About 10nm https://t.co/aNfhhrUMdW pic.twitter.com/pAE9tAEppT

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