When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins.
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Receptors
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Caffeine is a purinergic antagonist that competitively inhibits adenosine at the sites of P1 receptors.
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The brain has no pain receptors.
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Having fifty times as many olfactory neural receptors as human beings, dogs have a sense of small that is a hundred thousand times more acute.
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