Other scientists have only recently identified hot and cold nerve cell receptors in the peripheral nervous system located just beneath the skin. This is the system that tells the brain to pull the ...

Touch a hot plate and your hand flies ... They've focused particularly on TRPV1, a receptor found at the endings of peripheral nerves in the skin that's integral to detecting temperature and ...

In humans, this receptor can induce eye and skin irritation. In mosquitoes, it influences which hosts the insects find most alluring -- specifically, those unprotected by repellents that drive ...

This week (July 7), a team described its research on the olfactory responses of the skin. Hanns Hatt of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and colleagues examined the response of epidermal cells known ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature ... For example, keeping hold of a hot object requires a nerve impulse to be sent to the motor neuron of the reflex arc to ...