P2X3 receptors are novel targets, highly specific to unmyelinated, small diameter C fiber afferent (or sensory) nerves that have dense innervations in visceral organs, skin and ...

Afferent nerves deliver information from sensory receptors to the brain. Efferent nerves transport signals from the brain to the periphery, initiating a physiological response. MC: What are some of ...

His study, “TREK-1 and TRAAK are principal K+ channels at the Nodes of Ranvier for rapid action potential conduction on mammalian myelinated afferent nerves,” was recently published in the Cell Press ...

Gu and Yamada report that protons are the signals that cross the synapse space from a Merkel cell to an Aβ-afferent nerve, and his UAB team identified the receptors in the nerve that sense the protons ...

Some cranial nerves have both afferent and efferent functions. The trochlear nerve function is purely efferent. It works as a pulley system to control the movement of the superior oblique muscle.

Described in a paper titled "Acute urinary tract infection elicits bladder afferent hypersensitivity"in Brain, Behavior, & ...

Baroreflex failure commonly refers to compromised afferent neurons, which affect cranial nerves IX and X but cause no additional autonomic deficits. Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity, ...

Afferent nerves – also known as sensory neurons – deliver information from sensory receptors to the brain. Efferent nerves – also known as motor neurons – carry signals from the brain to the periphery ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, for the first time ever, have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of Ranvier. At the ...