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- are activated when a mechanical force pushes on or stretches the cell
- transmit signals that the brain interprets as touch, pressure, texture, stretching, vibration
- numerous in skin
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- respond in alteration to skin temperature
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- percieved very quickly
- rises almost instantly to peak intensity
- carried by myelinated neurons that rapidly convey an acute, sharp, stabbing pain
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- begins later
- rises to a peak over several seconds or minutes
- are carried by unmyelinated neurons that are throbbing, aching, burning
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- pain from tissue damage appears to be coming from somewhere else
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- skeletal muscle proprioceptors
- contain modified myscle fibers that detect skeletal muscle length
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- collagen strands within tendons
- protect against damaging myscle tension that might tear muscle or tendon by use of excess force; their activation makes the muscle relax and decrease the tension
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- respond to chemical ligands that bind to them
- taste cells
- clustered in taste buds
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- small projections on the tongue
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- stem cells within the taste bud
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- detection of volatile chemicals called odarants in air by olfactory chemoreceptors in the nasal cavity
- special sense
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- located on the inferior surface of the ethmoid bone high in the nasal cavity
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- swelling at the tip of the olfactory nerve inside the skull
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- G protein coupled receptors
- depolarizes the olfactory receptor cell
- increase neurotransmitter release
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