Ruffini ending

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Ruffini ending
Nerve ending of Ruffini.
Gray's subject #233 1061
Dorlands/Elsevier c_56/12261238

Named after Angelo Ruffini, the Ruffini ending is a class of slowly adapting mechanoreceptor thought to exist only in the glabrous dermis and subcutaneous tissue of humans.

This spindle-shaped receptor is sensitive to skin stretch, and contributes to the kinesthetic sense of and control of finger position and movement.[1]

[edit] Footnotes and references

  1. ^ Mountcastle, Vernon C. (2005). The Sensory Hand: Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation. Harvard University Press, pp. 34. 

[edit] External links

  • Paré M, Behets C, Cornu O (2003). "Paucity of presumptive ruffini corpuscles in the index finger pad of humans.". J Comp Neurol 456 (3): 260-6. PMID 12528190. 


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Nervous system, receptors: somatosensory system
Medial lemniscus: Touch/mechanoreceptors: Pacinian corpuscles - Meissner's corpuscles - Merkel's discs - Ruffini endings - Free nerve endings - Hair cells - Baroreceptor
Proprioception: Golgi organ - Muscle spindle (Intrafusal muscle fiber)

Spinothalamic tract: Pain: Nociceptors Temperature: Thermoreceptors


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