TREKing noxious thermosensation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
TREKing noxious thermosensation
The ability to sense environmental temperature as pleasant or unpleasant is associated with the activity of thermo-sensitive neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Differential sensation of pleasant environmental temperatures (warm and cool) versus unpleasant and noxious (cold and hot) temperatures requires the definition of thresholds and temperature ranges for activating thermonociceptors....
متن کاملEvolutionary adaptation to thermosensation.
Organisms continuously evolve to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Chief among these are daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations. Relatively small in terms of real physical values, temperature fluctuations of just a few degrees can profoundly affect organismal functions. In vertebrates, temperature is detected by primary afferents of somatosensory neurons, which express thermo-gat...
متن کاملTRP channels and thermosensation.
Recent years have seen great advances in the molecular description of sensory neurobiology. Of the five popularly characterized senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch), touch is perhaps the most varied and least understood. Within this modality is the ability to sense mechanical forces, chemical stimuli, and temperature, and the molecules that mediate this ability have been a long-stand...
متن کاملThermosensation: Some like it hot
The ability of organisms to respond to fluctuating temperatures is ubiquitous but poorly understood. Recent studies of nematodes reveal specific sensory neurons and interneurons that mediate thermotaxis.
متن کاملThermoreceptors: Recent heat in thermosensation
Every organism with a nervous system can detect changes in temperature. Recent studies on sensory neurons from rats and genetic evidence from nematodes have provided intriguing hints about the molecular basis of thermosensation.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The EMBO Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0261-4189,1460-2075
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.107