Chemoreceptors

Word CHEMORECEPTORS
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Definitions and meanings of "Chemoreceptors"

What do we mean by chemoreceptors?

A sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor

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The word "chemoreceptors" in example sentences

Oil, Solangi said, disrupts sea turtles 'chemoreceptors -- in other words, their senses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When scents stimulate chemoreceptors in the brain, pain perception decreases. ❋ Judith Lothian RN (2010)

A tiny pit on each side of the septum is lined with nonfunctioning chemoreceptors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The contents of both glasses were then tested with the chemoreceptors in the researcher's oral and nasal cavities. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The first pair of antennae is often sexually dimorphic and bears chemoreceptors and mechanoreceptors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What is more, if the chemoreceptors had detected wine, as a reality-based investigator, I would have to conclude "I don't know" as the cause and thus seek out a reality-based explanation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A new study, published today in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has significant implications for the design of disease markers and the development of chemoreceptors used in human biomedical research. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Moreover, you failed to think of the conclusive test – did either glass of water make you drunk, even if your finite chemoreceptors did not detect wine in either of them? ❋ Unknown (2006)

These organs include sensory hairs, eyes, statocysts and chemoreceptors of various types. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These studies led, in particular, to the discovery of the chemoreceptors, situated in the cardio-aortic and carotid sinus areas, and also to contributions regarding the proprioceptive regulation of arterial blood pressure and hypertension. ❋ Unknown (1965)

If you change their shape, the chemoreceptors in your nose may be unable to detect them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Jellyfish have chemoreceptors that turn the nematocyte on or off," Southern Fried ❋ Maggie Koerth-Baker (2010)

Respiratory changes occur due to the chemoreceptors that sense changes in the blood chemistry. d. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors-the receptors that sense and respond to chemical stimuli-in bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"One of the remarkable things about this system," says Jensen, "is that the chemoreceptors are exquisitely sensitive to changes in the concentrations of positive and negative stimuli." ❋ Unknown (2009)

What they saw when they glimpsed the insides of these quick-frozen bacteria were chemoreceptors arranged in a regular, repeating lattice of hexagons-a structure with six sides and six corners or vertices-that are 12 nanometers apart, center to center. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The authors mention only central cortical and subcortical structures involved in arousal mechanisms, without referring to peripheral arterial chemoreceptors as the carotid body, the role of which in arousal from asphyxial events is widely accepted. ❋ Porzionato, A., Macchi, V., De Caro, R., Klitz, W. (2009)

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