Sentences with phrase «between olfactory neuron»

Hooker and Van de Bittner note, however, that the tool also has tremendous potential for research applications, particularly for drug discovery in smell - loss therapy and in understanding the relationships between olfactory neuron health and brain health more generally.

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Now, Minghong Ma, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Penn doctoral student Andrew Moberly, have added neurons associated with the olfactory system to the connection between behavior and breathing.

The pattern of activity of all sensory neurons in the olfactory system allows us to distinguish between different odors present in the environment.

Kenyon cells make up only about 4 % of the entire fly brain and are extremely sensitive to inputs triggered by odors, in which only two connections between neurons, called synapses, separate them from the receptor cells at the «front end» of the olfactory system.

Overall, fewer connections are formed between sensory and memory neurons, thereby disrupting the development of the olfactory circuit.

Now researchers have added neurons associated with the olfactory system to the connection between behavior and breathing.

Su, C.Y.; Menuz, K.; Reisert, J.; Carlson, J.R. (2012) Non-synaptic inhibition between grouped neurons in an olfactory circuit.