The microelectrode was carefully brought up to the leaf, and the epidermis was touched or pierced.
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When the optic vesicle touches the epidermis and caves in to produce the optic cup, the epidermis opposite the opening thickens and produces a spherical lens rudiment.
Many of us go through life as automatons, barely touching the epidermis of wakefulness.
The leaves of Baihe-35-1 were inoculated by touching the adaxial epidermis with sporulating colonies on the surface of the 'Thompson Seedless' infected leaves.
It is also possible that the material properties of the touch dome itself differ from surrounding epidermis.
Merkel cells (MCs) are cutaneous neuroendocrine cells that are mainly found in touch-sensitive areas of the glabrous epidermis and outer root sheaths of hair follicles [1], [2], [3].
Dermis is the interlayer next to epidermis and is distributed with various types of mechanoreceptors that can sense touch, pressure, and vibrations from 0.5 to 500 Hz [8].
Generation of GCs requires stereotyped asymmetric and symmetric cell divisions, and the pattern of stomatal complexes in the epidermis follows a "one-cell-spacing rule" (one complex almost never touches another one).
The surface of a CaMV-infected Arabidopsis leaf expressing genetically tagged GFP-tubulin (GFP-TUA6; Ueda et al., 1999) was touched with a microelectrode, and the response of TBs in epidermis cells was recorded using confocal time-lapse macroscopy.
When you're touched, the nerve endings under your top layer of skin, or epidermis, send electrical signals to the brain.
