"These sensory neurons are surprising: during an infection, they taste the content of the cerebrospinal fluid, spot intruding bacteria through bitterness receptors, then increase the expression of ...

Hair Cells Convert Energy Hair cells are the sensory receptor cells of hearing and balance. They are as important for the senses of the inner ear as chemoreceptors are for taste and smell; as ...

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells ...

In recent years, researchers have highlighted the presence of sensory receptors in unexpected areas of the human body. In lung tissue, for example, taste receptors cause the airways to relax in ...

More promising still, in mice with damaged sensory cells in the inner ear, high levels of Sox4 and Sox11 activity increased the percentage of vestibular supporting cells that converted into sensory ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

When they blocked the receptor for these neurotransmitters on the sensory neurons, the neurons no longer responded to the hair follicle cell stimulation.

The mammalian nose is a work of evolutionary art. Its millions of nerve cells, each tailored with just one of thousands of specific odor-chemical receptors encoded in the genome, can collectively ...

Using immunofluorescence techniques, the scientists then discovered that the sensory neuron endings expressed a neuropeptide called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). This neuropeptide plays a ...

You get parosmia when smell receptor cells in your nose, called olfactory sensory neurons, don’t detect odors and translate them to your brain the way they should.

Synesthesia is when input from one sense triggers the brain to associate it with another sensory experience.