Sentences with phrase «as odor receptors»

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In future studies, Datta and his team will examine whether MS4A proteins act as a primordial odor receptor across species.

Here, the smell is retained in the maze of scent receptors even after the dog exhales; the odor is not expelled as it is with humans.

When a particular molecule happens to fall into a matching receptor, a neural signal is triggered that is transmitted to the brain as an odor.

The animals had lost many olfactory receptors, which detect odors, as well as urinary proteins, which can impact social status and mate choice.

Each odor - detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large number of options that are split into class I (fish - like) and class II (terrestrial - specific) odorant receptors.

Professor Bargmann then embarked upon what was to become a lifetime mission to define how genes and the environment influence behavior by dissecting the neural circuitry of C. elegans and the genes, receptors, and signaling molecules involved in such behavior as feeding and responses to odors.

They have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity as compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger than the comparable part of the human brain.

«Even though dogs have four to five times as many scent receptors as cats, cats are much more sensitive to odors,» says Guardian.

You can think of dogs as having two noses — the 300 million olfactory receptors and their Jacobson's organ — and this Synaptic Smelling System (my phrase, trademark pending) allows trained dogs to detect odors called volatile organic compounds.