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Cnidocyte mechanoreceptors are tuned to the movements of swimming prey by chemoreceptors.

open access: closedScience, 1989
Cnidocytes, the stinging cells of cnidarians, discharge nematocysts in response to physical contact accompanied by the stimulation of specific chemoreceptors. Cnidocytes in fishing tentacles of a sea anemone are now found to discharge nematocysts preferentially into targets vibrating at 30, 55, and 65 to 75 hertz.
G. Watson, D. Hessinger
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Cnidocytes as Microscale Synthesis and Delivery Modules

open access: closed, 2008
Abstract : As a first step in using nematocysts isolated from Physalia in a drug-delivery patch, we needed to assess the techniques used to yield efficient discharge. A number of pre-discharge and discharge solutions were utilized to determine the best combination, chosen based on literature findings for nematocysts isolated from other species.
David Eddington, J. I. Bates
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Electrical Responses to Water-Soluble Components of Fish Mucus Recorded From the Cnidocytes of a Fish Predator, Physalia Physalis

open access: closedMarine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 2021
Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man of war, consumes mostly fish and fish larvae. Intracellular recordings from nematocyst‐containing cells (cnidocytes) in small pieces of Physalia tentacle were used to quantify the electrical responses to diluted and filtered fish skin mucus, 1–100 x 10‐6 M amino acids, monosaccharides, and nucleosides, and seawater,
J. E. Purcell, P.A.V. Anderson
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Cnidocytes and adjacent supporting cells form receptor-effector complexes in anemone tentacles

open access: closedTissue and Cell, 1989
Cnidocytes, the stinging cells of enidarians, discharge enidae (intracellular capsules containing eversible tubules) in response to physical contact combined with the stimulation of specific chemoreceptors. These receptors, occurring in at least two classes, bind N-acetylated sugars and certain amino-compounds, respectively (Thorington and Hessinger ...
Glen M. Watson, David A. Hessinger
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Gonadal cnidocytes in the cubozoan Tripedalia cystophora Conant, 1897 (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)

open access: closedJournal of Morphology, 2019
AbstractCubozoans have a complex lifecycle in many ways similar to the scyphozoan lifecycle. The sexual reproduction within cubozoans varies between species with one clade having copulation and internal fertilization and the release of planula larvae.
Sandra Helmark, Anders Garm
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Neural pathways and innervation of cnidocytes in tentacles of sea anemones

open access: closedHydrobiologia, 2004
Our previously published studies are here reviewed detailing neuro-cnidocyte synapses, demonstrating putative neurotransmitter substances, and identifying complex neural pathways in sea anemones. Synapses were traced to their contacts on nematocytes and spirocytes by transmission electron microscopy of serial thin sections of tentacles. In five animals,
Jane A. Westfall
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Chemoreceptor-mediated elongation of stereocilium bundles tunes vibration-sensitive mechanoreceptors on cnidocyte-supporting cell complexes to lower frequencies

open access: closedJournal of Cell Science, 1991
ABSTRACT Cnidocyte-supporting cell complexes (CSCCs) discharge nematocysts into targets upon coincidental stimulation of specific chemoreceptors and contactsensitive mechanoreceptors. In addition, CSCCs in the tentacles of at least one species of sea anemone discharge nematocysts into targets vibrating at specific frequencies.
Glen M. Watson, David A. Hessinger
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