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Peripheral Receptors
Dr. Reese 1/19/11
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01/22/2011

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Term
Responds to temperature and temperature changes
Definition
Thermoreceptors
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Pain receptors
Definition
Nociceptors
Term
Responds to physcial deformation. Includes touch receptors, proprioceptors, auditory receptors, and vestibular receptors.
Definition
Mechanoreceptors
Term
Smell, taste, pH, metabolite concentration, etc.
Definition
Chemoreceptors
Term
Visual receptors of the retina.
Definition
Photoreceptors
Term
Classified based on the type of stimulus to which the particular receptor is most sensitive (adequate stimulus)
Definition
Peripheral Receptors
Term
What type of receptor will respond best to pressure, vibration, movement, stretch, etc.
Definition
Mechanoreceptor
Term
Perceived as specific modalities (pain, pressure, cold, light touch, etc) due to the way receptors interpret sensory stimuli.
Definition
Sensations
Term
Most receptors respond to one specific stimuli and when that receptor is activated, that particular modality is __
Definition
perceived
Term
What does a photoreceptor respond best to? As in what is its adequate stimulus?
Definition
Light or to pressure with flash of light
Term
When multiple receptors are stimulated what happens?
Definition
More complex sensations (such as tickle or textures) are perceived
Term
Where a receptor converts stimulus into an electrical signal
Definition
Receptor potential
Term
A receptor potential which CNS can interpret. This process is called what?
Definition
Transduction
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Perception of ____ of a stimulus due to size and duration of electrical (receptor) potential produced.
Definition
Intensity
Term
Changing physical stimulation into electrical energy
Definition
Transduction
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Will sensory receptors continue to respond in the same way to sustained stimulation?
Definition
No
Term
All sensory receptors possess the property of what?
Definition
Adaptation
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The receptor potential decreases in amplitude in response to a sustained stimulus or fewer and fewer APs are produced
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Adaptation
Term
Can either be rapidly or slowly adapting.
Definition
Sensory Receptors
Term
Give an example of a rapidly adapting receptor
Definition
Pacinian corpuscle
Term
Give an example of a slowly adapting receptor
Definition
Holding pressure on your arm in a static position for a time
Term
Responds transiently only at the onset of the stimulus an at the end of a step change in stimulus. Can only indicate change and movement to stimuli.
Definition
Rapidly Adapting Receptor
Term
The duration of a maintained stimulus is therefore defined by the onset and termination of the stimulus, each of which causes discharde in a what?
Definition
Rapidly Adapting Receptor
Term
These receptors respond continually, although with decreasing amplitude, to a sustained stimulus.
Definition
Slowly Adapting Receptos
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Cell bodies are in the dorsal root or cranial nerve ganglion. The central processes terminate in the spinal cord or brain stem. The peripheral processes terminate in the receptors of the skin, muscle/tendon, or joint.
Definition
Somatosensory Receptors
Term
In somatosensory receptors, where do central processes terminate?
Definition
In the spinal cord or brain stem
Term
In somatosensory receptors, where do peripheral processes terminate?
Definition
In the skin, muscle/tendon, or joint
Term
Are there separate receptors for warmth and cold?
Definition
Yes
Term
Two separate senses, warmth and cold, which are detected by two separate receptors, cold and warmth receptors.
Definition
Thermoreceptors
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Do thermoreceptors have free nerve endings?
Definition
Probably
Term
Name the range of temperatures in which cutaneous cold thermoreceptors are activated.
Definition
24 - 34 degrees C
Term
Name the range of temperatures in which cutaneous warmth thermoreceptors are activated.
Definition
32-45 degrees C
Term
Below 15 and above 45 degrees C you do not feel warmth or cold receptors but what is actually stimulated?
Definition
Pain receptors
Term
Pain receptors are also known as
Definition
Nociceptors
Term
Do nociceptors have free nerve endings?
Definition
Yes
Term
Responds selectively to stimuli that can damage tissue
Definition
Nociceptors
Term
Name 4 different types of Nociceptors
Definition
Mechanical
Thermal
Chemical
Polymodal
Term
Activated only by strong mechanical stimulation, most effectively by sharp objects that deform the skin such as a knife.
Definition
Mechanical Nociceptor
Term
Responds selectively to heat or cold below 15 or above 45
Definition
Thermal Nociceptors
Term
Chemical substances act on this type of nociceptor by either directly stimulating it or making it more sensitive to further stimulation.
Definition
Chemical Nociceptors
Term
Name 3 substances that can affect chemical nociceptos
Definition
Bradykinin
K+
Histamine
Term
Responds to several different kinds of noxious stimuli - mechanical, heat, and chemical.
Definition
Polymodal Nociceptors
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Certain chemical receptors heighten pain receptors. Give an example of when this may happen.
Definition
Burn your finger, then it will hurt worse to shake a person's hand because your sensitivity is heightened
Term
This medication acts to decrease pain sensitivity by inhibiting chemical receptors.
Definition
Aspirin (Prostaglandin)
Term
Name 5 types of touch receptors
Definition
Hair follicle receptor
Meissner's corpuscle
Merkel's receptor
Pacinian corpuscle
Ruffini corpuscles
Term
Nerve endings of small myelinated axons wrapped around hair follicles. These receptors are activated by movement of the hair follicle which moves when the hair shaft is displaced. Movement of a single hair usually can be perceived.
Definition
Hair Follicle Receptor
Term
What does it mean that hair follicle receptors are rapidly adapting?
Definition
You can feel the initial bending but then lose perception, even if hair remains bent.
Term
Encapsulated nerve endings, respond to pressure, small receptive field (2-4mm), most numerous over fingertips. Responsible for ability to perform fine tactile discrimination. Rapidly Adapting.
Definition
Meissner's Corpuscle
Term
Disk-shaped expansion of the terminal of a sensory fiber inserted into the base of a specialized cell called a Merkel cell. Detect skin indentation, speed and rate of change in indentation as well as duration of indentation, small receptive field, very sensitive. Slowly adapting.
Definition
Merkel's Receptor
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Detects high frequency vibration (60-400 Hz), encapsulated receptor, large receptive field, found all over the body, very sensitive - poor receptors for pressure but good for vibration due to rapid adaptation.
Definition
Pacinian Corpuscle
Term
Detects skin displacement (pressure), large receptive field - slowly adapting - encapsulated.
Definition
Ruffini Corpuscle
Term
Which of the 5 touch receptors are more superficial?
Definition
Hair Follicle Receptors
Meissner's Corpuscles
Merkel's Corpuscles
Term
Which of the 5 touch receptors are more deep?
Definition
Pacinian Corpuscles
Ruffini Corpuscles
Term
Size of receptive field and density of receptor distribution delimits capacity to resolve what detail of object?
Definition
Spatial
Term
The ability to discriminate spacial differences can be evaluated by testing what?
Definition
2 point discrimination
Term
The ability to recognize that 2 separate stimuli have been applied as distance between 2 stimuli varies
Definition
2 point discrimination
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2 point discrimination varies greatly with location on body surface. In mm tell what the measurements are for fingertip, palm, and back.
Definition
Fingertip - 2 mm
Palm - 10 mm
Back - 40 mm
Term
The sense of position and movement of the limbs
Definition
Limb Proprioception
Term
Sense of stationary position of the limbs
Definition
Limb position sense
Term
Sense of limb movement
Definition
Kinesthesia
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Name the 2 submodalities of limb proprioception
Definition
Limb position sense
Kinesthesia
Term
With local anesthesia or an epidural you may not feel a part of your body in space. Can you walk if you cannot feel your legs even if the muscles are intact?
Definition
No
Term
Name the 3 main types of proprioceptors
Definition
1.Mechanoreceptors located in joint capsules
2. Muscle spindle receptors and GTOs
3. Cutaneous mechanoreceptors
Term
So called joint receptors, include Pacinian corpuscles, free nerve endings, GTOs in ligaments and Ruffini-like corpuscles
Definition
Mechanoreceptors located in joint capsules
Term
Combination of all 3 main types of proprioceptors leads to what?
Definition
Full proprioception
Term
___information detected by peripheral receptors is carried to the CNS along peripheral nerves.
Definition
Sensory
Term
Peripheral nerves are covered with 3 layers of connective tissue. List them in order from superficial to deep.
Definition
Epineurium
Perineurium
Endoneurium
Term
The 3 layers of connective tissue surrounding peripheral nerves are continuations of what?
Definition
Meninges
Term
Critical in guiding regrowing axons to their target organs following peripheral nerve injury
Definition
endoneurium
Term
Consists of bundles of axons of varying diameters
Definition
Peripheral nerves
Term
The classification system for axons being classified according to diameter.
Definition
A, B, C classification system
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Which conducts faster, large diameter axons or small diameter axons?
Definition
Large
Term
Sensory axons are also commonly classified based upon their origin, function, and conduction velocity. What is this classification system called?
Definition
I, II, III, IV, classification system
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