Olfactory perception is influenced by hormones. Here we report that adrenaline can directly affect the signal encoding of olfactory receptor cells. Application of adrenaline suppressed action ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, such as those in taste buds... | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

Abstract—Sensory neurons that innervate the heart sense ischemia and mediate angina. To use patch-clamp methods to study ion channels on these cells, we fluorescently labeled cardiac sensory neurons ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Cell-to-cell communication (CCC) plays important roles in multicellular organisms. The identification of communication between cancer cells themselves and one between cancer cells and normal cells in ...

Octopuses can taste with their arms, and a new study reveals that specifically, they're tasting chemical cues from microbes ...

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread across their eight arms, giving each limb a degree of autonomy that borders on ...

Objective: The capsaicin receptor TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid type-1) may play an important role in visceral pain and hypersensitivity states. In irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ...

In the inner ear, the sensory receptor cells (hair cells) signal reception of sound. They do so by converting mechanical input, due to sound waves moving the hair bundles on these cells, into ...

Photoactivation of attractant phototaxis receptor sensory rhodopsin I (SRI) in Halobacterium salinarum entails transfer of a proton from the retinylidene chromophore’s Schiff base (SB) to an ...

Or as first author and graduate research fellow Sarah Sniffen puts it: How do odors come to acquire some sort of emotional charge? In many ways, our world capitalizes upon the importance of smells to ...