Sentences with phrase «called olfactory receptor»

They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.

In 2004 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptors.

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Physicist Marshall Stoneham and his colleagues at University College London report they have constructed a specific mechanism based on the properties of so - called G - protein coupled receptors, which project from olfactory cells inside the nose.

The neurons send their signals to the brain's olfactory bulb, where each of thousands of little clusters of neurons called glomeruli receives input from olfactory neurons with just one receptor type.

McRae and colleagues found that the genetic variants associated all lie in or near genes that encode so - called odorant or olfactory receptors.

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.

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.