Your nerve endings have receptors called nociceptors, which are found in your skin, joints, muscles, and organs. When these receptors sense something can harm your body, they send chemical and ...

What makes this exciting is that the central terminal - or ending - of a peripheral nerve actually expresses the cold and menthol receptors.' This response of the receptor is important because ...

The sense of touch is achieved through sensory nerve endings and specialised sensory receptors of the skin (VanPutte et al, 2017). Other important physiological functions of the skin include ...

Nicotinic receptors are also present on the postsynaptic junctional folds, opposite the sites on the nerve endings from which acetylcholine is released. These nicotinic receptors are composed of ...

Sensory nerve endings in the skin play a crucial role ... hair follicles to discern the higher percentage of touch-sensitive receptors in hair follicle cells compared to their counterparts in ...

It binds with pain receptors, which are nerve endings that sense pain. This induces a burning sensation but does not cause any real burning injuries. Even so, high consumption of chili peppers (or ...

Since the follicle contains many sensory nerve endings, we now want to determine ... contained a higher percentage of touch-sensitive receptors than equivalent cells in the skin.

Researchers have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according to a new study. The findings hold ...

Nerve gases are often very potent, requiring highly sensitive sensors to detect them quickly and accurately. One method of boosting sensitivity combines human scent receptors with nanomaterials ...