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Thermoreceptors

Known as: Thermoreceptor, receptors temperature, temperature receptor 
Cellular receptors which mediate the sense of temperature. Thermoreceptors in vertebrates are mostly located under the skin. In mammals there are… 
National Institutes of Health

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Afferent neuronNerve EndingsSensory Receptor CellsSomatosensory Receptor
Blood supply aspectsKrause's End BulbsMicrobiologicalPeripheral Nervous System

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Review
2003
Review
2003
Neurophysiological and anatomical considerations in functional imaging of pain
2000
2000
Nice snake, shame about the legs.
1991
1991
Pain but no temperature sensations are evoked by thermal stimulation of cutaneous veins in man
Review
1988
Review
1988
Speculations on the structure/function relationship for vagal and splanchnic afferent endings supplying the gastrointestinal tract.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Laryngeal cold receptors.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Characteristics, specificity, and efferent control of frog cutaneous cold receptors
1. Thermal stimulation of frog skin produces a discharge in afferents in the dorsocutaneous nerve. The characteristics of this… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Neurones in the dorsal horn of the rat responding to scrotal skin temperature changes
1. Micro‐electrode recordings have been made from single neurones in the dorsal horn of male rats anaesthetized with urethane… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Two classes of slowly adapting mechanoreceptor fibres in reptile cutaneous nerve
1. The myelinated fibre spectrum of the plantar nerve of reptile consists of a unimodal distribution corresponding approximately… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Relaxation and sleep induced by warming of preoptic region and anterior hypothalamus in cats.
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
The effect of temperature on the membrane properties of neurons in the visceral ganglion of Aplysia.
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