For example, the capsaicin receptor, TRPV1, is expressed by primary afferent somatosensory neurons, where it functions as a detector of noxious heat [5].
These showed that each PC functioned as a feature detector capable of selectively predicting significant sensory or behavioral events with far greater statistical reliability than could any single neuron.
The macula densa that functions as a detector of sodium levels within the kidney tubules of tetrapods, however, has not been found in fishes.
It could also have added the functionality of products such Leap Motion and Kinect, with the iPhone functioning as a Minority Report motion detector and projector.
Similarly to TLRs, they function as detectors of the presence of pathogens and transducers of signals downstream of the MAP-kinase pathway.
They function as coincidence detectors of presynaptic and postsynaptic activities, leading to synapse strengthening.
Based on previous observations that ppk23 neurons respond to both attractive and aversive sex pheromones, we speculate that they function as general detectors for a subset of chemosensory cues rather than encode information about valence.
This suggests that phosphorylation of synaptic JNK targets is regulated by a novel mechanism and that the JNK pathway, and the phosphatases that oppose it, function as a rapid detector of changes in neuronal activity.
In this scenario, the Cbl Grb2 complex would function as an avidity-driven coincidence detector of the double pY-based signal generated nonlinearly on an individual EGFR moiety.
Interestingly, transgenic mice that express GLUT2 only in astroglial cells in the central nervous system are rescued from the defect in counterregulation seen in whole body GLUT2−/− mice (32), raising the intriguing possibility that astroglial cells might function as detectors of extracellular glucose change.
This vector of pixels function as twitching detectors.
