Sentences with phrase «human olfactory»

The project is uniquely suited to provide novel insights about the human olfactory system, odor coding, and the interaction of the human olfactory and limbic systems.

Even differentiating between two rose varieties can be a snap because the human olfactory system — made up of the nerve cells in our noses and everything that allows the brain to process smell — is quite adept.

ChemCom, relying on its scientific excellence and its patented technological platform, expresses the whole repertoire of human olfactory receptors.

The human olfactory epithelium lines the roof of the nasal cavity, part of the nasal septum and the superior turbinates and may extend to the middle turbinates.

Even better, right whale scat is pungent enough to be detected by human olfactory systems.

Related sites PNAS paper Human Olfactory Receptor Database Exploratorium (HORDE) Yoav Gilad's home page

Without the dog, and its excellent sense of smell, acting as a sentinel, humans could not have evolved the anatomy needed for language, as this development left the human olfactory system diminished.

A unique form of carbon dating, made possible by the Cold War, suggests that new neurons rarely survive in the human olfactory bulb after birth

It essentially acts as an «electronic nose», and gives machines the power of smell by mimicking the human olfactory system.

In humans the olfactory / memory brain of primitive nocturnal mammals has evolved into the more visual - auditory / memory brain that causes sad movies and sad songs to evoke lost loves and make us cry.

Not exact matches

Because through the olfactory awareness one can even discern another humans fitness and health to identifying poisonous substances and safe food.

Humans have around 10,000 olfactory receptors.

By tapping existing compounds known to block one class of olfactory neurons, scientists might be able to better camouflage humans from mosquito detection or draw mosquitoes away from humans with chemical bait.

But nobody had studied whether dogs could pick up on olfactory cues from humans.

Neuroscientist Steven Jacobson and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have determined that the virus makes its entry to the human brain through the olfactory pathway, right along with the odors wafting into our nose.

But no one had tested humans» olfactory capacity.

In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.

Raman has spent a decade learning how the human brain and olfactory system operate to process scent and odor signals.

But now a new study, published in Frontiers in Physiology, has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue.

«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.»

New study has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue.»

But since dogs are so much more olfactory than humans, their responses would likely be even more powerful than the ones we might have.»

Since olfactory sensory neurons regenerate throughout life, even in humans, the investigators were able to measure neuron regeneration in specific animal models.

«Rodents are extremely olfactory,» Dulac says, while «humans are more sensitive to visual cues.

First, they sequenced the same 50 olfactory receptor genes from two humans, two chimpanzees, two gorillas, two orangutans, and two rhesus macaques.

Called the olfactory recess, it's a large maze of highly convoluted airways that humans and all other primates lack.

This is a science book that reads like a mystery novel, with vividly drawn characters (both human and odoriferous) and chemical clues (the formation of mercury droplets, the olfactory illusion of caraway).

Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Richard Axel of Columbia University, both winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, have found that the human nose contains about 1,000 different types of olfactory neurons, each type able to detect a particular set of chemicals.

Whether or not humans possess an accessory olfactory bulb or have tacked pheromonal signaling onto the list of the main olfactory system's chores remains a matter of debate.

«But it's clear you can get pheromone - like responses in human brains that are different from standard olfactory response.»

The results imply there is likely some olfactory component affecting humans on caloric restriction diets as well.

«There has been a lot of prejudice that people are not that influenced by olfactory stimuli, especially compared to other mammals,» says Lilianne Mujica - Parodi, who studies the neurobiology of human stress at Stony Brook...

The results indicate that the dogs are detecting emotion by smell and support the conclusion that communication between humans and dogs has an olfactory component.

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.

What is really happening, Turin posited, is that the approximately 350 types of human smell receptors perform an act of quantum tunneling when a new odorant enters the nostril and reaches the olfactory nerve.

They placed human neural stem cells in the rostral migration stream — a pathway in the rat brain that carries cells towards the olfactory bulb, which governs the animal's sense of smell.

He argues that while dogs have excellent olfactory abilities, they compromised some of these natural talents in order to live with humans.

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 example.

Even if humans could gather this information, our brains wouldn't know what to do with it: the dog olfactory cortex, which processes scent information, takes up 12.5 per cent of their total brain mass, while ours accounts for less than 1 per cent.

Mark Albers uses the olfactory system of mice and humans to help understand the early events of neurodegeneration in order to find ways to intervene early in the disease process before symptoms appear and distinguish early pathologic events from changes produced by aging.

SEMA3A deletion in a family with Kallmann syndrome validates the role of semaphorin 3A in human puberty and olfactory system development.

Nevertheless, it is clear that olfaction is important in flavor perception, and it has been argued that with a greater amount of the brain devoted to olfaction, humans may in many ways equal other animals in their olfactory abilities (14).

«The olfactory system is often an underappreciated sensory system in humans, even though we've all experienced the feeling of smelling a particular odor and having an almost instant flashback or emotional experience of an old memory,» said Filomene G. Morrison, BA, a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the paper.

Because the olfactory systems of all species work in a similar way, the findings can be used to draw conclusions to the human sense of smell.

New studies that directly test the olfactory capacity of human volunteers show that human are equipped to tell the difference between at least one trillion different odors.

They placed human neural stem cells in the rostral migration stream — a pathway in the rat brain that carries cells toward the olfactory bulb, which governs the animal's sense of smell.

This project provides the opportunity to record intracranial LFP signals from the olfactory as well as the limbic regions of the human brain while patients participate in various olfaction - based behavioral paradigms.

For her postdoctoral work Ashlyn is examining the role of the accessory olfactory system and the Trpc2 gene in sexual differentiation while she continues her translational work on sexual orientation in humans.

Trimmer, a geneticist, studies how differences in olfactory receptor genes affect human smell perception.

Plus, the right scent can instantly transport us to faraway places and times past, thanks to the human body's elaborate olfactory system.