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Epicritic sensations are

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the mild or light sensations. Such sensations are perceived more accurately.

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Examples of epicritic sensations are:

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  • Fine touch or tactile sensation
  • Tactile localization
  • Tactile discrimination
  • Temperature sensation with finer range between 25°C and 40°C.
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Protopathic sensations are

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the crude sensations. These

sensations are primitive type of sensations.

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Examples of Protopathic sensations are:

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i. Pressure sensation
ii. Pain sensation
iii. Temperature sensation with a wider range, i.e. above 40°C and below 25°C

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Synthetic senses are

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…the sensations synthesized at cortical level, by integration of impulses of basic sensations. Two or more basic sensations are combined in some of the synthetic senses.

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Best examples of synthetic senses are

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vibratory sensation, stereognosis and two-point discrimination.

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Mechanoreceptors function

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They detect mechanical deformation (compression or stretching of the receptor or of tissues adjacent to the receptor) of the receptor.

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Cutaneous corpuscular receptors may be categorized as

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encapsulated and nonencapsulated receptors.

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Which receptors have encapsulated endings?

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Pacinian corpuscle
Meissner corpuscle
Ruffini ending
Krause end-bulb
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle (pressure)
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Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle is a receptor for

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pressure

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The expanded or encapsulated endings are not necessary for cutaneous sensation. True or false?

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True. They only function as mechanoreceptors for tactile stimuli.

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What are the mechanoreceptors?

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(I) Merkel’s discs

(ii) Meissner’s corpuscle
(iii) Pacinian corpuscle
(iv) Ruffini corpuscle
(v) hair-follicle plexus.

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Fine touch or discriminatory touch sensation is carried by

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…the so-called low-threshold mechanoreceptors.

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Two types of sensory afferents are associated with these mechanoreceptors

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Fast-adapting (FA) and slow-adapting (SA).

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Both the FA and SA afferents are further subdivided into two types, based on their receptive field properties into…

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i) Type I units, with small receptive fields with well-defined borders. (ii) Type 2 units with wider receptive fields

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What is the receptive field?

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The area covered by the receptor

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There are cold-sensitive spots and heat-sensitive spots in the skin. True or false?

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True

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There are __ times more cold-sensitive spots as compared to heat-sensitive spots.

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4-10

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Number of cold spots per cm2 of skin in lips, fingers, trunk

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Lips (15-25)
Fingers (3-5)
Trunk (1)

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Types of receptors for skin tactile sensibilities (epidermis and dermis)

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  • Free nerve endings
  • Expanded tip endings
  • Spray endings
  • Ruffini’s endings
  • Encapsulated endings
    -Hair end-organs
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Types of receptors with expanded tip endings

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Merkel’s discs
Plus several other variants

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Types of receptors with encapsulated endings

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Meissner’s corpuscles
Krause’s corpuscles

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Free nerve endings - Location, Modaity, Fibre Type

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  • Location: Everywhere in the skin
  • Detects: pain, touch, pressure
  • C-fibres
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Meissner’s corpuscle - Location, Modaity, Fibre Type

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  • Location: Non-hairy part of the skin (glabrous skin), fingertips, lips
  • Description: Elongated, encapsulated nv endings, excite Aβ fibres
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Free nerve endings are found in...
...hairy skin, root of hair, cornea but not encapsulated endings.
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Merkel’s discs - Location, Description
Location: Fingertips, hairy skin parts Description: Expanded tip, forms Iggo dome receptor, excite Aβ fibres
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Which receptor forms Iggo dome receptor?
Merkel’s discs
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Hair end organ - Location
Hairy skin parts
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Ruffini end organ - Location, Description, Modality
* Location: deeper layer of skin, deeper tissues, joint capsules * Description: Encapsulated, multi branched
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Meissner’s corpuscle detects...
Light touch, low frequency vibration
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Merkel’s discs detect
Touch (steady state signals), Texture
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Hair end organ detects...
Movement of object on the surface of the skin
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Ruffini end organ detects...
...continuous state of deformation
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Slow-adapting receptors examples
- Ruffini endings - Muscle spindles and Golgi tendon - Receptors of the macula in the vestibular apparatus - Pain receptors - Baroreceptors of the arterial tree - Chemoreceptors of the carotid and aortic bodies
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Fast-adapting receptors examples
Hair-end Meissner’s corpuscle Pacinian corpuscle
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Pacinian corpuscle
* Location: Underneath the skin (dermis), facial tissues of the body * Description: lamellated, rapidly adapting
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Pacinian corpuscle detects...
Pressure, tissue vibrations
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Fast pain sensation is carried by __ and slow pain sensation is carried by __ of nerve fibers.
Aδ fibers, C type
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Static position sense refers to
... conscious perception of the orientation of the different parts of the body with respect to one another.
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Dynamic proprioception sense refers to...
Conscious perception of the rate of movement of body parts
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Proprioceptors are also stretch receptors. True or false?
True
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2 types of stretch receptors associate with skeletal muscle.
Tendon receptors | Muscle spindle
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Tendon receptors are found in
the muscle-tendon junction.
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Tendon receptors function
- They respond to maintained tension in the muscle fascicles (or fibres) and tendon. –They respond to rate or velocity of tension developed i.e. they respond to increasing muscle force with an increase in the firing rate. –It is suited to monitor total force extended by the muscles
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Muscle spindles function
–They determine joint angulation in mid-ranges of motion. –They detect stretch in muscle fibres –The detect the rate of change of length of muscle fibre –They function to maintain muscle length.
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Joint receptors are slowly adapting. True or false?
True
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Joint Receptors function
They sense the degree of flexion of various skeletal joints.
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How does muscle spindle function as sensory receptors?
The central region of each of the fibers has few or no actin and myosin filaments. Therefore, this central portion does not contract when the ends do. Instead, it functions as a sensory receptor
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Muscle spindle receptor is excited in 2 ways:
- Lengthening the whole muscle | - Contraction of the end portions
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Intensity of a stimulus
A measure of the energy content (or concentration, in the case of chemical stimuli) available to interact with the sensory receptor.
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Coding is...
the conversion of receptor potentials into a pattern of action potentials that conveys relevant sensory information to the CNS
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A single afferent neuron with all its receptor endings makes up a
sensory unit
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Receptive field of a neuron
The portion of the body that, when stimulated, leads to activity in a particular afferent neuron
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What determines the intensity of a stimulus?
Increase in receptors stimulated and frequency of impulses
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What happens as the stimulus increases?
- The frequency of impulses or action potentials is also increases. - Higher threshold receptors are recruited to increase the number of receptor stimulated
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Different receptors can be excited in one of several ways to cause receptor potentials:
1) By mechanical deformation of the receptor, which stretches the receptor membrane and opens ion channels 2) application of a chemical to the membrane, which also opens ion channels (3) change of the temperature of the membrane, which alters the permeability of the membrane; (4) by the effects of electromagnetic radiation, such as light on a retinal visual receptor, which either directly or indirectly changes the receptor membrane characteristics and allows ions to flow through membrane channels.
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The maximum amplitude of most sensory receptor potentials is
about 100 millivolts, but this level occurs only at an extremely high intensity of sensory stimulus
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Which cations come in to generate RP in most sensory neurons?
Na and Ca. K and Cl go out.
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Which cations come in to generate RP in rods and cones?
Others; Na closes
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Which cations come in to generate RP in vestibulocochlear hair cells?
K comes in
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Types of MS intrafusal fibers:
* nuclear bag muscle fibers (1-3) | * nuclear chain fibers (3-9
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The primary sensory nerve ending (the 17µm) is excited by __ while the secondary ending is usually excited by ___
both the nuclear bag and the nuclear chain fibers, only nuclear chain fibers
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Which of the primary and secondary nerve endings of muscle spindle carry out static and dynamic responses?
Both do static, only primary does dynamic
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Regions of a receptor
(a) a transducer region | (b) a spike generator region.
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Which region of a receptor is responsible for transduction?
The transducer region
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Location of transducer region
At the end of the nerve terminal
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The first AP of a cutaneous sensory neuron is generated at the axon hillock. True or false?
False. The first AP is generated at the first node of Ranvier
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In mechanoreceptors, the Na+ channel comes under the category of
degenerins, so named because with hyperexpression of these receptor-channels, they cause degeneration of the neurons associated with them
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Appearance of Krause end bulb receptors in general area
They have a mulberry-like appearance.

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