Sentences with phrase «called olfactory receptor cells»

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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.

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.