Sentences with phrase «in olfactory bulb»

You should, because nearly all of our sense of taste is located in our olfactory bulb, not in our taste buds.

Interglomerular Lateral Inhibition Targeted on External Tufted Cells in the Olfactory Bulb.

Whereas 65 percent of new neurons in wild mice ended up in the olfactory bulb, little more than 9 percent of the mutants» neurons were able to complete the journey.

They then tracked neurons as they migrated from region to region of the brain and found that new neurons oriented in the direction of fluid flow rather than the direction of their ultimate destination in the olfactory bulb.

Normal mice with p16 had fewer neural stem cells in one part of the brain and fewer new neurons in the olfactory bulb, again demonstrating p16's ability to inhibit regeneration.

One new set of brain cells formed in the olfactory bulb, and were specifically tuned to the smells of his pups.

During odor presentation, specific areas are activated in the olfactory bulb but not in the piriform cortex.

The team was able to view the responses of tens of neurons at a time to signals arriving in the olfactory bulb from the mouse's odor detectors, called olfactory sensory neurons, located in the nose.

The researchers tested samples of brain cells from people with MS and healthy control subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.

This pattern is processed and remembered by neural circuits in the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex.

Samuel Weiss, director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, and his colleagues reported that nerve cells sprouted in the olfactory bulb, the seat of the sense of smell, and in the hippocampus, the brain's memory bank.

Not exact matches

The phenomenon has something to do with the olfactory bulb in the brain's limbic system and how it forever links the scent of soap and freshly - cut lavender to the security of your grandmother's guest room.

They say that smell is most powerful sense for bringing back memories — something about the olfactory bulb in the brain's limbic system and how it forever links the scent of freshly - cut lavender to the security of your grandmother's guest room.

Green is electroporated neuroblasts born in the sub ventricular zone that migrated into the olfactory bulb.

To find these patterns, researchers used to expose rats to an odor for 45 minutes — an unnaturally long time — then kill them and look for changes in the uptake by the olfactory bulb of a labeled form of glucose, which indicates neuronal activity.

The brain (specifically, the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex) then looks at the combination of sensory neurons activated at any given time and interprets that pattern in the context of previous patterns that have been experienced and other kinds of available information.

Agalliu also found that Th17 cells induced by strep opened the BBB only in certain spots: Since strep enters the body through the nose, it made sense that he saw the BBB was pierced near the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that processes odors.

It goes from the nose to the olfactory bulb and then directly from there to the olfactory [processing area] but also to places like the amygdala and the hippocampal formation, which are involved in emotion and memory.

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

The virus appears to invade the brain by infecting a type of glial cell called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which nourish smell - sensing neurons and guide them from the olfactory bulb to their targets in the nervous system.

Using microelectrodes, the researchers recorded the electrical activity of pheromone - sensitive interneurons in male American cockroaches that relay signals of female - producing sex pheromones in the antennal lobe (functional homolog to the mammalian olfactory bulb) to higher - order centers.

With a scalpel he removes the olfactory bulb at the base — sometimes this is smaller in Parkinson's patients, and if it is, they lose their sense of smell.

The results showed that all five scents elicited a similar response in parts of the dogs» brains involved in detecting smells, the olfactory bulb and peduncle.

Neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb fire in a relatively narrow range, up to a few hundred times per second.

In the rat, the olfactory bulb is located between the eyes, just behind the nasal bone.

Published in Neuron, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) report their discovery of a neural circuit in the mouse olfactory bulb that explains how our mammalian cousins (and by extension, we) are able to adjust the gain on intense odors.

The scientists focused on the production of new neurons in adult mice, in particular those neurons that integrate into the olfactory bulb, the brain region responsible for analyzing odors.

Pheromones are detected by the so - called vomeronasal organ, which sits in the nasal cavity and sets off a cascade of nerve signals that ends in the accessory olfactory bulb, the organ that processes pheromones.

Now researchers report that by inserting ultra-fine electrodes into the brains of live mice, they have identified which neural cells in the accessory olfactory bulb fire when one mouse checks out another's pheromonal fingerprint.

First, by the time Morganucodon was alive 190 million years ago, the brain was almost 50 % larger than in cynodonts, and areas that process smell, such as the olfactory bulb, were distinctly larger.

Biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon of UC Berkeley also praises the descriptive work that shows the olfactory bulb was «unambiguously enlarged» compared with the structure in reptiles.

«In living higher primates you find the opposite: the brain is very big, and the olfactory bulb is very small, presumably because as their vision got better their sense of smell got worse.»

When her team took a closer look at dragonfly and damselfly antennae with an electron microscope, they spotted tiny bulbs in pits that resembled olfactory sensilla.

Once believed to lack a sense of smell, dragonflies and damselflies, such as Ischnura elegans (pictured), possess olfactory bulbs in their antennae that may help them track prey.

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.

Airborne chemicals, translated into neuronal signals by specific receptors in the nose, are sent directly to the olfactory bulb.

By recording neuronal activity in the input and output layers of the olfactory bulb, as well as feedback from olfactory cortical areas and neuromodulatory signals, Albeanu and his team aim to understand computations the bulb performs and how this information is decoded deeper in the brain.

Store calcium mediates cholinergic effects on mIPSCs in the rat main olfactory bulb.

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.

In rats, olfactory bulb neurons use simple «linear summation'to make sense of fluctuating odor inputs from the surrounding environment...

Furudono, Y.; Cruz, G.; Lowe, G. (2013) Glomerular input patterns in the mouse olfactory bulb evoked by retronasal odor stimuli.

Well, the olfactory bulb in their noses is proportionately 40 times as large as a human's!