For a protein to be considered mechanosensitive, it must respond to a mechanical deformation of the membrane.

Local mechanical deformations occur in the form of a treatment track.

Upon mechanical deformation, a portion of the soft segments are stressed by uncoiling, and the hard segments become aligned in the stress direction.

Traveling waves of chemical concentration or mechanical deformation.

When this periodic mechanical deformation lasts, the alternating current (AC) signals will be continuously generated.

Capacitive strain gauges use a variable capacitor to indicate the level of mechanical deformation.

It creates patterns by mechanical deformation of imprint resist and subsequent processes.

This mechanical deformation causes stretch-sensitive channels to have an increased probability of opening.

Researchers hypothesized that, initially, the cytoskeleton was buffering the mechanical deformation of the squeezing from the channel.

The depolarization at five minutes was the cytoskeleton snapping which subsequently caused the channel to sense the mechanical deformations and thereby respond to the stimuli.