These sample pages of sensory receptors were created by 6th grade science students at Redwood Middle School in California. Each page explains a different type of receptor with the human body and ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

When this receptor is overactivated, external sensory input is suppressed, and the brain generates more internally-driven images. "It's a bit like our brain is increasingly talking to itself ...

What if this difference is due in part to something as simple, and strange, as a smell receptor? A recent paper in Science ...

Olfactory receptors, classified as G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), have been a subject of scientific inquiry since the early 1950s. Historically, investigations into the sensory mechanisms of ...

Juvenile dolphins were found to have specialized receptors for fatty acids on their tongues, offering new insights into their ...

Dolphins have specialized receptors to detect fatty acids in mother's milk, aiding in assessing nutritional value of food.

mc.duke.edu Background and aims: The role of sensory neurones in colitis was studied by chemical denervation of primary sensory neurones as well as antagonism of the vanilloid receptor-1 (VR-1) in ...