What both receptor types have in common is that they are activated by specific neurotransmitters.
However, in the visual system, it is the activity of the different receptor types that are opposed.
With the above mentioned receptor types the skin can sense the modalities touch, pressure, vibration, temperature and pain.
This may suggest the involvement of several receptor types centrally.
If, as some researchers think, bloodhounds have a particularly wide inventory of receptor types, their amazing abilities might be explained.
Seven transmembrane helix family, the ubiquitous receptor type of the animal kingdom.
Each receptor type can detect a small number of related molecules and responds to some with greater intensity than others.
Evidence of a direct change in hepatic receptor type during disease comes from studies recently described by Volpes et al.
In general 5-HT 2 receptor types are growth-regulatory and stimulate cell division.
Numerous receptor types are found in a typical cell.