A free nerve ending (FNE) or bare nerve ending, is an unspecialized, afferent nerve fiber sending its signal to a sensory neuron. Afferent in this case...
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Afferent nerve fibers are axons (nerve fibers) of sensory neurons that carry sensory information from sensory receptors to the central nervous system...
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vanilloid receptor (VR-1, TRPV1) is a receptor that is found on the free nerve endings of both C and Aδ fibers that responds to elevated levels of heat (>43 °C)...
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pressure, fast vibrations) Merkel's disc (sustained touch and pressure) Free nerve endings thermoreceptor nociceptors chemoreceptors With the above-mentioned...
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They are all innervated by Aβ fibers, except the mechanorecepting free nerve endings, which are innervated by Aδ fibers. Cutaneous mechanoreceptors can...
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Axon (redirect from Axon ending)
Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates...
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Cutaneous innervation (redirect from Nerve supply to the skin)
membranes, contains free nerve endings served by nonmyelinated axons. The conjunctiva contains a less dense distribution of free nerve endings that are served...
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nerve fibers are one of the three classes of nerve fiber as generally classified by Erlanger and Gasser. The other two classes are the group B nerve fibers...
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In neuroscience, nerve conduction velocity (CV) is the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway. Conduction velocities...
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that has a free nerve ending, with dendrites embedded in tissue that would receive a sensation; (2) a neuron that has an encapsulated ending in which the...
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several nerve terminals is greatest in the corona glandis. Halata & Spathe (1997) reported; "the glans penis contains a predominance of free nerve endings, numerous...
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Nerve is a 2016 American techno-thriller adventure film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and written by Jessica Sharzer, based on the 2012 novel...
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Nociceptor (redirect from Pain nerve)
nociceptor transducers that are responsible for how and if the specific nerve ending responds to the thermal stimulus. The first to be discovered was TRPV1...
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are densely innervated by several types of nerve terminals, including genital corpuscles and free nerve endings, and are considered by males a highly erogenous...
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or pain. Tactile pads are characterized by high concentrations of free nerve endings. In primates, the last phalanges in the fingers and toes have tactile...
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Neuralgia (section Peripheral nerve injury)
Neuralgia (Greek neuron, "nerve" + algos, "pain") is pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerves, as in intercostal neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia,...
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Meissner (1829–1905) and Rudolf Wagner. This corpuscle is a type of nerve ending in the skin that is responsible for sensitivity to pressure. In particular...
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peppers such as ghost peppers or carolina reapers) contacts cutaneous free nerve endings which are present in high density in finger tips. This triggers the...
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responsible for transducing pain (including A-delta and C- nerve fibers, as well as free nerve endings) throughout the nervous system of an organism. The ability...
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features: The nerve fibers with free nerve endings The nerve fibers which end on Merkel cells adapt their responses to touch rapidly The nerve fibers which...
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skin can usually be divided into two groups based on morphology: Free nerve endings characterize the nociceptors and thermoreceptors and are called thus...
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Examples include: Polymodality, multiple stimulus modalities (e.g. free nerve endings) Polytonality, multiple musical modes This disambiguation page lists...
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The long thoracic nerve traverses this passageway in addition to axillary blood vessels and the brachial plexus. This complex nerve network arises in...
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Temporomandibular joint (section Nerve supply)
in turn a branch of the trigeminal nerve (CN V).[citation needed] Free nerve endings, many of which act as nociceptors, innervate the bones, ligaments...
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but the sensitivity of each varies, and depends on concentrations of nerve endings that can provide pleasurable sensations when stimulated. The touching...
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induced by PGE2 which is produced by COX1, and type II fibers with free nerve endings are likely to be the subdivision of fibers that carry out this function...
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They project peripheral processes to the tissues in the form of free nerve endings which are sensitive to molecules indicative of cell damage. The central...
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and in some internal organs. Some nociceptors are unspecialized free nerve endings that have their cell bodies outside the spinal column in the dorsal-root...
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terminate in the pulp tissue proper, either as free nerve endings or as branches around blood vessels. Sensory nerve fibers that originate from inferior and...
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across their body, and their skin is also supplied with numerous free nerve endings that presumably contribute to their sense of touch. Oligochaetes occur...
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