BIO 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Proprioception, Carotid Body, Peripheral Chemoreceptors

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Sensory information is conveyed to the cns and perceived in a four-step process: stimulation, transduction, transmission. The role of a sensory receptor is to collect data from the environment and bring it to the nervous system. The force or energy put upon to the receptor which undergoes transduction and becomes an electrical signal. Interpretation of different signals are different for different parts of the brain. In certain areas of the brain there is cross talk (e. g. olfaction: our cns is pretty past but delays can be measured. Like holding something hot for sometime but it takes time for you to realize it is hot. Sensory cells respond to stimuli via stimulus-gated ion channels in their membranes: open or close depending on the sensory system involved. In most cases, a depolarization of the receptor cell occurs: analogous to the excitatory postsynaptic potential (epsp) Most of the channels are gated channels.

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