Sentences with phrase «activated by odor»

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A study by researchers from McGill University in Canada involving neuroimaging, which creates pictures of the brain's structure and neural activity, showed that smelling the body odor of someone closely related activates the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain responsible for recognizing family.

Thus, signals coming from a given neuron provide information about odors that activate the specific receptor protein expressed by that cell.

Unlike activated carbon, which sequesters odor molecules by physically trapping them, the copper chemically reacts with the stench, breaking it down into its nonsmelly component parts.

They found that 65 percent of tubercle cells from 23 anesthetized mice were activated by at least one of five odors — an important finding in its own, because no one knew if tubercle cells could discriminate odors, a process thought to be exclusive to the part of the brain known as the piriform cortex.

The neuron pathways activated in the moths were tracked by inserting a 16 - channel electrode into the moth's antennal lobe, where the moth processes odor information from its antennae.

Most municipal sewage is treated by aerobic biological process (called activated sludge) and the created sewage sludge further treated (stabilized to prevent odors) under either aerobic or anaerobic conditions, the later creating methane gas that can be used.