While there are many different types of sensory neurons, most have dendrites that extend from the cell body and detect changes in specific parameters of the environment – such as mechanical force, the ...

Specifically, sensory neurons are activated by a sensory input via ... which involve rapid changes in voltage across their membrane. When a neuron’s dendrite or cell body receives enough inputs from ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

Now, scientists have discovered a new mechanism by which these crucial supporting players detect and respond to neuron ... says. “Sensory organs, which include cilia-decorated dendrites ...

Along with variation in dendritic structure and channel distributions, such variability suggests that different pyramidal neurons might carry out specialized functions. Pyramidal-neuron dendrites ...

The amplitudes of [Ca 2+] transients were proportional to the number of sodium action potentials in a short burst, indicating that dendritic [Ca 2+] may encode the neuron's recent activity 25.

By studying the synapses through which pyramidal neurons in the brain's sensory cortex ... through which a neuron receives ...