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They are coupled to light receptors similar to the ones in your eyes.
But because this individual lacks receptors to hear that testosterone, the body doesn't react to the testosterone.
And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, "Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors."
By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.
It still freaks me out every time I eat it, but it has a unique ability to mask certain taste receptors on your tongue, so that primarily sour taste receptors, so normally things that would taste very sour or tart, somehow begin to taste very sweet.
Very complex processes with very complex chemicals that fit into very complex receptors.
Your heart has receptors for this hormone, and oxytocin helps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage.
That’s likely because they activate receptors in a broad range of brain areas, including the cortical regions for all the senses.
And antipsychotic drugs relieve symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking the same serotonin receptors LSD and psilocybin bind to.
The endocrine system relies on interactions between three features to do its job: glands, hormones, and trillions of cell receptors.
To find its targets, it’s helped along by receptors, which are special proteins inside or on the cell’s surface.
Those receptors recognise specific hormones as they waft by, and bind to them.
One of their most potent alkaloids is the chemical epibatidine, which binds to the same receptors in the brain as nicotine but is at least ten times stronger.
It's really hard, but in essence, nerves from the brain go up into the nose and on these nerves exposed in the nose to the outside air are receptors, and odor molecules coming in on a sniff interact with these receptors, and if they bond, they send the nerve a signal which goes back into the brain.
If you're a human, you have about 400 different kinds of receptors, and the brain knows what you're smelling because of the combination of receptors and nerve cells that they trigger, sending messages up to the brain in a combinatorial fashion.
You can do that because there's no pain receptors in the brain.
They work by stimulating nicotine receptors in the brain and thus preventing withdrawal symptoms, without the addition of other harmful chemicals.
This is light waves, electromagnetic radiation that bounces off objects and it hits specialized receptors in the back of our eyes.
So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for picking it up.
You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet nostrils that attract and trap scent molecules, and your nostrils even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
Inside our retina are special receptors called rods and cones.
You have these all over your body, including your mouth and nose, and they're the same receptors that are activated by extreme heat.
The cool, minty compound is activating your cold receptors.
When these heat-sensitive receptors are activated, your body thinks it's in contact with a dangerous heat source and reacts accordingly.
So, torment your heat receptors all you want, but remember, when it comes to spicy food, you're going to get burned.
What optical illusions show us is the way your photo receptors and brain assemble visual information into the three-dimensional world you see around you, where edges should get extra attention because things with edges can help you or kill you.
The pups of nurturing moms turned out less sensitive to stress because their brains developed more cortisol receptors, which stick to cortisol and dampen the stress response.
At first detection of low water levels, sensory receptors in the brain's hypothalamus signal the release of antidiuretic hormone.
But how do you sense your bladder's fullness so you know when to pee? Inside the layers of detrusor muscles are millions of stretch receptors that get triggered as the bladder fills.
Their pain receptors, called nociceptors, trigger in response, cueing the brain to release a flood of neuropeptides that inflame the cranial blood vessels, swelling and heating up the head.
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