Case in point: A team of scientists led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara has discovered that multiple opsin proteins, known for decades to be required for vision, also function as taste receptors.

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 ...

sensory receptor. Odor, Taste, and Light Receptors in Unusual Locations. Sandeep Ravindran | | 2 min read. From the gut and airways to the blood, muscle, and skin, diverse sensory receptors are doing ...

For decades, researchers have been investigating how the nervous system make sense of the signals brought into the brain by the sensory organs. Some basic facts are well known: sensory receptor cells ...

5-HT2A receptors regulate sensitivity to sensory input. Through this method, the researchers discovered that the 5-HT2A receptor selectively suppresses the strength of incoming visual information.

The relationship between elements of the immune system and the nervous system in the presence of bacteria has been addressed recently. In particular, the sensory vanilloid receptor 1 (transient ...

And these extra senses are just for humans, there are other species that have sensory reception that we cannot even fathom. For instance, honeybees have iron oxide in their abdomen that allows ...

This receptor gradient separates sensory and cognitive networks,” they noted. “The secondary gradient segregates the dorsal attention from the default mode network and salience network.

And the octopus genome, sequenced in 2015, held hints of a possible sensory receptor, though it was never investigated. “We have been waiting for this evidence,” says Jennifer Mather, ...