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Functional characteristics of stretch receptors of flight apparatus of cockroach Periplaneta americana

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The functional characteristics of the stretch receptors of the wing joints ofPeriplaneta americana were examined and the possible functional role of these receptors in the maintenance of a stable rhythm of flight is discussed. The stretch receptors of the wing joints are of the phasic — tonic type, with slow and incomplete adaptation by the receptors which discharge upon movement of the wing upward. The nature of the impulse response of a receptor depends both on the angle and the rate of movement of the wing membrane. The arrangement of a hypothetical pacemaker of the insect's wing beats is discussed in detail.

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  1. Laboratory of Invertebrate Neurophysiology, I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad

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Translated from Zhurnal Évolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 483–489, September–October, 1975.

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Gorelkin, V.S. Functional characteristics of stretch receptors of flight apparatus of cockroach Periplaneta americana. Neurosci Behav Physiol 7, 63–68 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148750

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