These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input ... serve no regular function, drugs that ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

These sample pages of sensory receptors were created by 6th grade science students at Redwood Middle School in California. Each page explains a different type of receptor with the human body and ...

People with "loss-of-function" mutations ... are the largest population of sensory neurons that innervate the skin—humans have four times more pain receptors in the skin than touch receptors.

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