A thermoreceptor is a non-specialised sense receptor, or more accurately the receptive portion of a sensory neuron, that codes absolute and relative changes...

mechanoreceptors (pressure or distortion), nociceptors (pain), and thermoreceptors (temperature). The sensory receptors in the skin are: Mechanoreceptors...

reflexes lasting under 5 min in laboratory volunteers and initiated by thermoreceptors sensing rapid skin cooling. Water has a thermal conductivity 25 times...

mechanoreceptors by type II and III sensory fibers and nociceptors and thermoreceptors by type III and IV sensory fibers. The autonomic nervous system has...

also contains mechanoreceptors that provide the sense of touch and thermoreceptors that provide the sense of heat. In addition, hair follicles, sweat...

endings) that provide the sense of touch and heat through nociceptors and thermoreceptors. It also contains the hair follicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands...

temperature sensors, which are connected to nerve cells called thermoreceptors. Thermoreceptors come in two subcategories; ones that respond to cold temperatures...

environment. The location of these thermoreceptors is not exclusively near to the surface of the skin, some thermoreceptors are instead situated deeper in...

pit organs, where on recently burnt trees, they deposit their eggs. Thermoreceptors on the wings and antennae of butterflies with dark pigmentation, such...

specialised thermoception organ. In humans, temperature sensation from thermoreceptors enters the spinal cord along the axons of Lissauer's tract that synapse...

mechanoreceptors, muscle nerves, etc.; and temperature, which is detected by thermoreceptors. All basic tastes are classified as either appetitive or aversive,...

olfactory receptors (smell) and taste receptors, photoreceptors (vision), thermoreceptors (temperature), nociceptors (pain), hair cells (hearing and balance)...

Wilhelm Krause (1833–1910). The end-bulbs of Krause were thought to be thermoreceptors, sensing cold temperatures, but in early research their function remained...

because it is an acid sensing ion channel (ASIC). Somatosensory system Thermoreceptor Nociceptor Stretch sensor Vestibular system Stretch receptor Johnson...

mechanoreceptors by type II and III sensory fibers, and nociceptors and thermoreceptors by type III and IV sensory fibers. Type Aα fibers include the type...

categories: chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, and thermoreceptors. All receptors receive distinct physical stimuli and transduce the...

in the environment, either external or internal. Receptors include thermoreceptors and mechanoreceptors. Control centers include the respiratory center...

receptor cells (such as mechanoreceptors, photoreceptors, chemoreceptors, thermoreceptors) in sensory organs transduct sensory information from these organs...

75 degrees, as well as continuous pressure states. They also act as thermoreceptors that respond for a long time, so in case of deep burn there will be...

fibers Free nerve ending Nociceptor Pain and nociception Sensory neuron Thermoreceptor Purves, Dale; et al. (2004). Neuroscience. Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates...

or danger (nociception). Thus, different free nerve endings work as thermoreceptors, cutaneous mechanoreceptors and nociceptors. In other words, they express...

information about pressure and vibration; nociceptors for pain, and thermoreceptors for temperature perception. Stimulation of the receptors activate peripheral...

mechanoreceptors by type II and III sensory fibers, and nociceptors and thermoreceptors by type III and IV sensory fibers. Normal impulses in peripheral nerves...

of naproxen is the reduction of the responsiveness of mechano- and thermoreceptors to stimuli. Other compounds act on molecules important for the transmission...

least one of these darkly-coloured species (T. rhadamantus) possesses thermoreceptors on the anal veins (A2 and A3) of the wings and on the antennal clubs...

pain via neural and hormonal inhibition. Lamina 1 receive input from thermoreceptors via the posterolateral tract. Marginal nucleus of the spinal cord are...

responsive to physical stimulation such as movement, vibration, and stress. Thermoreceptors – These are types of receptors that are present within the skin and...

tip. The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, also has specialized thermoreceptors on its nose, which aid the animal in locating areas where the blood...

by cutaneous cold sensitive pathways through the Parabrachial area. Thermoreceptors in the skin detect temperature in the environment relative to body...

fingertips possess the highest concentration of touch receptors and thermoreceptors among all areas of the human skin, making them extremely sensitive...