Lurking within the mucus of the nose are the tips of olfactory receptor cells. (discovermagazine.com)
Together, the findings demonstrate that Ggamma13 is essential for mammals to smell odors and extend the current understanding of how olfactory receptor cells communicate information about odors to the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
Researchers had long assumed that contaminants like TCA activate nerve cells involved in smell called olfactory receptor cells (ORCs), although they have not been able to explain how even extremely low concentrations of the molecule produce the corked odor. (sciencemag.org)