Physiology
Cutaneous Receptors
- Meissner’s corpuscles: light touch
- Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini’s endings (in skin): pressure, mechanical deformation and vibration
- Merkel discs: light touch
- Free nerve endings: pain, mechanical deformation and temperature
- Bradykinin, serotonin, histamine and acetylcholine can activate chemical pain receptors
- Prostaglandins and…