"Electric Organ" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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In about 250 species of electric fishes, modified muscle fibers forming disklike multinucleate plates arranged in stacks like batteries in series and embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A large torpedo ray may have half a million plates. Muscles in different parts of the body may be modified, i.e., the trunk and tail in the electric eel, the hyobranchial apparatus in the electric ray, and extrinsic eye muscles in the stargazers. Powerful electric organs emit pulses in brief bursts several times a second. They serve to stun prey and ward off predators. A large torpedo ray can produce of shock of more than 200 volts, capable of stunning a human. (Storer et al., General Zoology, 6th ed, p672)
| Descriptor ID |
D004557
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A13.332
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| Concept/Terms |
Electric Organ- Electric Organ
- Electric Organs
- Organ, Electric
- Organs, Electric
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Electric Organ" by people in Profiles.
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Sensory receptor diversity establishes a peripheral population code for stimulus duration at low intensities. J Exp Biol. 2012 Aug 01; 215(Pt 15):2586-600.
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Feature extraction by burst-like spike patterns in multiple sensory maps. J Neurosci. 1998 Mar 15; 18(6):2283-300.
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From stimulus encoding to feature extraction in weakly electric fish. Nature. 1996 Dec 12; 384(6609):564-7.
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Coding of time-varying electric field amplitude modulations in a wave-type electric fish. J Neurophysiol. 1996 Jun; 75(6):2280-93.
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Mapping the extracellular topography of the alpha-chain in free and in membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor by antibodies against overlapping peptides spanning the entire extracellular parts of the chain. J Protein Chem. 1994 Jan; 13(1):37-47.
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Profile of the continuous antigenic regions on the extracellular part of the alpha chain of an acetylcholine receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1987 Jun; 84(11):3633-7.
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Segment alpha 182-198 of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor contains second toxin-binding region and binds anti-receptor antibodies. FEBS Lett. 1986 Apr 07; 199(1):68-74.
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Reductive methylation as a probe of the heat-labile alpha-bungarotoxin-acetylcholine receptor membrane complex: evidence for surface interactions. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1983 Sep; 225(2):872-8.
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Ligand-induced effects at regions of acetylcholine receptor accessible to membrane lipids. Biochemistry. 1983 Aug 02; 22(16):3807-11.
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A differential scanning calorimetry study of acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes from Torpedo californica. J Biol Chem. 1983 Apr 10; 258(7):4166-70.