How are sights, sounds and smells converted into electrical signals in a form that can be interpreted by the nervous system? This process called sensory transduction began to be understood only recently as a result of the development of the techniques of patch-clamp recording and gene cloning.Beginning with fundamental properties of ion channels and G-protein coupled signal cascades, Sensory Transduction provides a comprehensive survey of this new knowledge that, taken as a whole, represents one of the greatest achievements of modern biology and neuroscience: the unravelling of the mechanism of sensation.
1 The Senses
2 Mechanisms of Sensation
3 Channels and Electrical Signals
4 Metabotropic Signal Transduction
5 Mechanoreceptors and Touch
6 Hair Cells and the Detection of Movement and Sound
7 Chemoreception and the Sense of Smell
8 Taste
9 Photoreception
10 Extra Sensory Receptors
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