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Transduction, Signal Transference, and Encoding in Composite Chemoreceptors: A Comparison between Gustatory and Arterial Chemoreceptors

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Transduction in Biological Systems

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The chemoreceptor organs are specialized to detect the steady levels and changes in the concentration of chemical constituents in external or internal environments. The receptor sites may be located either on the membrane of neurons themselves (simple or primary receptors) or on specialized receptor cells (composite or secondary receptors). In this last case, stimuli do not act on components of primary sensory neurons, but require the intervention of epithelioid receptor cells as transducer elements and of receptoneural synapses for the signal transference from those cells to the sensory endings of afferent neurons.

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Zapata, P. (1990). Transduction, Signal Transference, and Encoding in Composite Chemoreceptors: A Comparison between Gustatory and Arterial Chemoreceptors. In: Hidalgo, C., Bacigalupo, J., Jaimovich, E., Vergara, J. (eds) Transduction in Biological Systems. Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5736-0_7

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