Sensory Systems Outline
Notes HERE

Sensory Connections to Brain (HERE)

Smell

• "Smelly" Chemicals (HERE and HERE)
• Nasal Epithelium (HERE)
• Odorant Receptor Evolution (HERE - note this figure shows the % that are functional) and Relationships (HERE)
• Olfactory Signal Transduction (HERE)
• Olfactory Receptor Activation - Odorants for (HERE) / Patterns of sensitivity (HERE)
• Converging Olfactory Neurons (HERE)

Taste

• Sample Tastes (HERE)
• Taste Buds (HERE)
• Gustducin in Taste Buds (HERE)
• Bitter Receptor Relationships (HERE)
• T2R Proteins are Bitter Receptors (HERE)
• Gene Expression - Smell vs. Taste Receptors (HERE)
• Heterodimeric sweet receptor (HERE)
• Amiloride (mutes salt taste) structure (HERE)
• Amiloride sensitive sodium channel (HERE)

Vision

• Electromagnetic Spectrum (HERE)
• 11-cis-Retinal (HERE) / Lysine linkage (HERE)
• Rod Cells (HERE)
• Rhodopsin Absorption Spectrum (HERE)
• Atomic Motion in Retinal (HERE)
• 7TM structures (HERE)
• Visual Signal Transduction (HERE)
• Cone Pigment Absorption Spectra (HERE)
• Green vs. Red Photoreceptor Sequences (HERE)
• Evolution of Visual Pigments (HERE)
• Recombination and Color Blindness (HERE)

Hearing

• Hair cells in hearing (HERE) / Bundle (HERE)
• Hair cell signaling (HERE)
• Tip links (HERE)
• Hair cell transduction model (HERE)

Touch

• Capsaicin (HERE) / Receptor (HERE)
• Capsaicin Receptor Responses (HERE)