The study found that whites had an average of $7,315 in credit card debt, a reduction of 29 percent. Latinos had $6,066 on their cards, a reduction of 33 percent. African-Americans had the smallest reduction, at 17 percent.
5 November 2008. Mechanoreceptors detect stimuli such as touch, pressure, vibration, and sound from the external and internal environments. They contain primary sensory neurons that respond to changes in mechanical displacement, usually in a localized region at the tip of a sensory dendrite.
a sensory nerve cell activated by chemical stimuli. For example, chemoreceptors in the carotid artery are sensitive to the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood; they signal the respiratory center in the brain to increase or decrease the rate of breathing.ther chemoreceptors are the taste buds, which are sensitive to chemicals in the mouth, and the olfactory cells of the nose, which detect certain chemicals in the air. chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ). located in the floor of the fourth ventricle; sensitive to motion, uremia, apomorphine.