SKIN
RECEPTORS
Dr. Rusdi, [Link].
Chemoreceptors
Flies have taste hairs on their feet.
Many insects smell using antennae.
LATERAL LINE SYSTEM
Most fishes and aquatic amphibians have a lateral line
system along both sides of their body
The lateral line system contains mechanoreceptors with
hair cells that detect and respond to water movement
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Figure 50.14
Lateral line
Cross section
SURROUNDING WATER
Opening of
Scale Lateral line canal lateral line
Epidermis canal
Cupula
Sensory
hairs
Hair cell
Supporting
Segmental muscle cell
Lateral nerve
FISH BODY WALL Nerve fiber
Figure 50.14a
Lateral line
Cross section
SURROUNDING WATER
Opening of
Scale Lateral line canal lateral line
Epidermis canal
Segmental muscle Lateral nerve
FISH BODY WALL
Skin Sensors
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Thermoreceptors
(sense temperature)
Pain receptors
(nociceptors, from
nocere (L) to hurt,
usually have naked
dendrites)
Mechanoreceptors
(sense physical deformation)
There are many types of sensory receptors:
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Krause Receptor
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Simple Receptors: Unencapsulated
Table 13.1.1
Simple Receptors: Encapsulated
Table 13.1.2
Simple Receptors: Encapsulated
Table 13.1.3
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4- Classification by
Adapting
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Receptor
(Generator)
Potential
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Tonic & Phasic Receptors
Transduction: translation of a stimulus into an
action potential.
Transferred to an afferent fiber which then travels to
the CNS.
Tonic Receptors-always sending signals.
Phasic Receptors: only when the conditions
they monitor change.
Fast-adapting receptors are phasic and slow-adapting
are tonic.
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Receptor Adaptation
Different rates of adaptation
response to continued stimulation
Slowly adapting (SA)
steady pattern of firing
Rapidly adapting (RA)
fire only at onset of stimulus
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Adaptation –
static & dynamic responses
(dynamic)
(static)
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Receptive field
sizes vary by type:
Meissner’s corpuscles -
small
Pacinian corpuscles -
large
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Receptive Field Size
Small Large
Meissner’s Pacinian
Rapid Corpuscle Corpuscle
Adaptation
Merkel’s Ruffini
Slow
Disks Ending
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