title: Tissue Biomechanics: Whales Have Some Nerve.
abstract: Nerves in the mouth of the rorqual whale can double in length during feeding, without incurring damage. Several clever structural features underlie this amazing phenomenon. Such neuroprotective architectural strategies may be conserved, to a lesser extreme, across the organismal spectrum.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA. Electronic address: sbshah@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Sameer B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001703:Biophysics; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D009055:Mouth; D014907:Whales