Sentences with phrase «for olfactory receptors»

Not exact matches

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.

The researchers scoured the already deciphered mouse genome, looking for genes that might encode additional receptor proteins in its olfactory system, the sensory cells that connect the nose to the brain.

«Function of olfactory receptor in the human heart identified: The new findings may be relevant in the long term for diabetic patients and patients with increased heart rates.»

This visual abstract depicts the discovery that chemosensory receptors in a subset of mammalian olfactory sensing neurons are structurally distinct from GPCRs, and multiple subtypes are expressed per neuron, implying an unexpected mechanism for olfactory detection and decoding.

«The fact that the MS4As have been preserved for at least 400 million years suggests that these receptors play a crucial role in enabling animals to interact with the olfactory environment,» Datta says.

Together, the findings demonstrate that Ggamma13 is essential for mammals to smell odors and extend the current understanding of how olfactory receptor cells communicate information about odors to the brain.

Many volatile compounds can now be detected quite well by «electronic noses» that were inspired by the olfactory receptors of animals and provide characteristic chemical fingerprints for scents and mixtures of scents.

«New method for exhaustively isolating olfactory receptors responding to specific odorants: Step toward the elucidation of a mechanism for recognizing odorants in mammals.»

A research group led by Osaka University and Panasonic Corporation developed a method for making a prompt, exhaustive isolation of olfactory receptors (ORs) responding to the odorant of interest.

However, the researchers did not find any evidence for an olfactory system which is based on odorant receptors in the most basal insect, the jumping bristletail.

For instance, in the human genome we still see the remnants of the large olfactory receptor gene family that gave our evolutionary ancestors a keen sense of smell, even though humans no longer rely on them.

Each olfactory neuron codes for only one of a thousand possible receptors that respond to particular sniffed compounds.

For this, the key odorous substances have to interact with one or more of the 400 olfactory receptors in the nose.

The pattern of gene expression is strikingly similar to that for individual olfactory receptor genes, Liberles says.

Searching for an explanation to this alternate pheromone - detection system, neuroscientists Stephen Liberles and Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle scanned the mouse olfactory epithelium for potential pheromone receptors.

For humans approximately two - thirds of these receptors are no longer functional, possibly a consequence of the reduced importance of olfactory function for humans as compared to rodents or dogs, for exampFor humans approximately two - thirds of these receptors are no longer functional, possibly a consequence of the reduced importance of olfactory function for humans as compared to rodents or dogs, for exampfor humans as compared to rodents or dogs, for exampfor example.

Guidepost neurons for the lateral olfactory tract: Expression of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 and innervation by glutamatergic olfactory bulb axons.

Cats rely less on their sense of smell for huntings than dogs do, which is apparent from the smaller repertoire of olfactory receptor genes in the feline genome.

The «magical world» created by his father became for Dr. Lomvardas the entry point into the real world of science, where he would one day work with Nobel laureates Eric Kandel and Richard Axel and conduct research into the molecular mechanisms of olfactory receptors — «one of the most enigmatic and complex problems in biology.»

The benefits of using olfactory receptor neuron samples to study psychiatric disorders and patient responsiveness include their similarity to brain neurons, the relatively easy biopsy procedure, and the potential for scientists to sample and compare cells from the same patients throughout several different stages of disease.

Additionally, most of the cancer cell lines expressing olfactory receptors express the effectors necessary for OR - mediated signal transduction.

With close to 300 million olfactory receptors at the end of your pup's snout, he can smell up to 100,000 times more than you, so the Wooly puts your furkid's nose and brain to work by mimicking a hunt for food in grass or fields.

While this may hold true for humans equipped with a mere 5 million olfactory receptors, things are drastically different from a dog's standpoint.

When we breathe, those chemicals are delivered to olfactory receptors that are found within the nose, and since dogs have over a thousand times more receptors than us, they experience odors quicker and stronger than us: «Dogs trained for scent detection also have long noses that very efficiently deliver air to these olfactory neurons.