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Chemosensing vs Mechanosensing - What's the difference?

chemosensing | mechanosensing | Related terms |

Mechanosensing is a related term of chemosensing.



As nouns the difference between chemosensing and mechanosensing

is that chemosensing is the generation of a response to the presence of a chemical stimulus while mechanosensing is responsivity to mechanical stimuli, especially at the cellular level or below.

chemosensing

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Noun

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  • (biochemistry) The generation of a response to the presence of a chemical stimulus

    • Related terms

    * chemosensor

    mechanosensing

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    Noun

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  • (biology) Responsivity to mechanical stimuli, especially at the cellular level or below
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, S.R.K. Vedula et al., chapter=Role of external physical forces in cell signal transduction, Biomechanics at micro- and nanoscale levels citation
    • , passage=Mechanosensing is probably the least understood aspect of the whole process of mechanotransduction.}}

    Related terms

    *chemosensing *mechanosensor, mechanosensory *mechanosensitive *mechanotransduction