transduce

(verb)

to convert energy from one form to another

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Examples of transduce in the following topics:

  • Gustation: Taste Buds and Taste

    • The gustatory system, including the mouth, tongue, and taste buds, allows us to transduce chemical molecules into specific taste sensations.
    • The sense of taste is transduced by taste buds, which are clusters of 50-100 taste receptor cells located in the tongue, soft palate, epiglottis, pharynx, and esophagus.
    • In general, tastes can be appetitive (pleasant) or aversive (unpleasant), depending on the unique makeup of the material being tasted.There is one type of taste receptor for each flavor, and each type of taste stimulus is transduced by a different mechanism.

  • Linear Systems

    • An impulsive voltage is applied to an ultrasonic transducer–a sort of high-frequency microphone.
    • The transducer converts voltages into force, so the force generated by the transducer would be appoximately impulsive.
    • The transducer was coupled to a rock sample.
    • So the rock is our linear system, the impulsive force generated by the transducer is the input to the system and Figure 5.2 shows the signal measured by the same transducer for a period of 300 μs after the excitation.

  • Olfactory (I) Nerve

    • These interactions are transduced into electrical activity in the olfactory bulb, which then transmits the electrical activity to other parts of the olfactory system and the rest of the central nervous system via the olfactory tract.

  • Transduction of Sound

    • When sound waves reach the ear, the ear transduces this mechanical stimulus (pressure) into a nerve impulse (electrical signal) that the brain perceives as sound.
    • When these pressure waves reach the ear, the ear transduces this mechanical stimulus (pressure wave) into a nerve impulse (electrical signal) that the brain perceives as sound.

  • Forced motion with damping

    • The rock is held fast by two tiny transducers ("pinducers") which are used to transmit a signal and record the response.
    • A swept sine wave is fed into the sample via a tiny transducer and recorded on another transducer.

  • T Cell Receptors

    • The biochemical signals that are triggered in T cells following antigen recognition are transduced not by the TCR itself, but by invariant proteins (CD3, and zeta), which are non-covalently linked to the antigen receptor to form the TCR complex.

  • Sodium Pumps as an Alternative to Proton Pumps

    • It also functions as signal transducer/integrator to regulate MAPK pathway, ROS, as well as intracellular calcium.
    • Functions include resting potential, transport, controlling cell volume and acting as a signal transducer.

  • Olfaction: The Nasal Cavity and Smell

    • The olfactory system gives humans their sense of smell by collecting odorants from the environment and transducing them into neural signals.

  • Pain Sensation

    • So it is possible that some of the transducers for thermal stimuli are the same for mechanical stimuli.
    • The peripheral terminal of the mature nociceptor is where the noxious stimuli are detected and transduced into electrical energy.

  • Energy Transformations

    • The technical term for a device that converts energy from one form to another is a transducer.