A study published in Nature provides insight into how the brain processes sensory information from the internal organs. Researchers at Harvard Medical School used high-resolution imaging to identify ...

How The Sensory Organs Of Bacteria Function Date: January 17, 2009 Source: Universitaet Mainz Summary: Bacteria can occur almost anywhere on earth and exist under the most varying conditions. If these ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sensory organs are composed of neurons, which convert environmental stimuli to electrical signals, and glia-like cells, whose functions are ...

Every day, we constantly absorb information through our sensory organs, which the brain then needs to process correctly. The information initially reaches the thalamus and then travels to the cerebral ...

Figure 1: The compound eye, auditory organ and stretch receptor share common spatiotemporal conditions for their formation. Figure 2: The ecdysone signal provides the common temporal information for ...

The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what ...

Although the ability to sense temperature is critical for many organisms, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Using the calcium reporter yellow cameleon 2.1 and electrophysiological ...

Every organ in the body is made up of a range of cell types that must coordinate their size and shape throughout the lifetime of the animal to maintain correct organ architecture and function. A focus ...