"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 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 photoreceptors are for vision; and ...

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 ...

The sensory epithelium makes up only a small portion of the wall of the membranous chamber and contains sensory receptor cells and surrounding supporting cells (supporting cells are not shown in the ...

"How sensory cells in the nose make their receptor choices has been one of the most vexing mysteries about olfaction," said Stavros Lomvardas, Ph.D., a Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at ...

They established co-cultures of human hair follicle cells and sensory nerves, ... When they blocked the receptor for these neurotransmitters on the sensory neurons, ...

A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear, because the sensory hearing cells of the inner ear don’t regenerate after damage. In two new studies, partially funded by the National Institutes ...

These sensory cells respond to mechanical stimuli such as pressure and play a key role in the perception of texture and ... These included mechanosensitive ion channels such as piezo receptors, ...

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. For example, someone may: See certain letters, numbers, shapes or motions and associate ...