The auricles can contain chemical and mechanical sensory receptors.

Nociceptors also contain receptors for pain and inflammatory-related mediators or cytokines.

Growth cones contain receptors that recognize these guidance cues and interpret the signal into a chemotropic response.

Calcium permeability, however is notably decreased in mutant compared to wild-type containing receptors.

The intestines also contain receptors that send satiety signals to the brain.

Scientists have known for some time that the brain contains receptors that respond to nicotine and that a number of these are lost in Alzheimer's.

Cardiac ventricles contain muscarinic receptors that mediate a decrease in the force of contractions leading to a lower blood pressure.

Young postulated that the eye contains receptors that respond to three different primary sensations, or spectra of light.

Men have estrogen in their systems, too, and most men's breast cancers contain receptors for the hormone, which allow it to influence the tumor.

The abdominal organs also contain receptors that provide geocentric information.