Note that while they may serve as sensory receptor cell specializations, primary cilia can simultaneously support major IFT functions of the cell (Figure 3).

Sensory cells of the balance organ can regenerate after injury Date: September 8, 2016 Source: Umeå universitet Summary: In the utricle – which is one of the internal ear’s balance organs in ...

Chemical signals are continually bombarding cell. Learn how the binding of a signal to cell receptors initiates a process called signal trandsduction inside the cell that causes a chain of reactions.

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 ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

With the help of bitter taste receptors that also detect byproducts from harmful bacteria, ... Special sensory cells in gums protect against periodontitis Date: October 3, 2019 ...

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 ...

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.

After about two weeks, some of the supporting cells start transforming to new sensory receptor cells (pictured). Mimmi Werner is a doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Unit for ...