Review of Medical Physiology - William F. Ganong 2002

Physiology of Nerve and Muscle Cells
Initiation of Impulses in Sense Organs
Introduction

Information about the internal and external environments reaches the CNS via various Sense Organs, or sensory receptors. These receptors act as transducers that convert Various Forms of environmental energy into action potentials in Neurons. The characteristics of these receptors, The Mechanism of impulse generation in afferent neurons, and the General Principles, or "laws," of sensory function are described in this chapter.



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