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.
Nobel Prize - winning work back in 1991 showed that, in mammals, each sensory neuron in
the main olfactory system expresses one type of G - protein coupled receptor (GPCR), which is specialized to detect a specific type of odor.
Not exact matches
The presence of the dead, snarled nerve cells and sticky protein fragments characteristic of Alzheimer's in the
main smell - processing structures of these deceased patients could suggest the disease gets its start in the
olfactory system.
In the present study we have reported the transcriptional profile of the two
main components of the
olfactory system in mice, obtained by RNAseq and expression microarray.