When the researchers exposed 2 - day - old rabbit pups to two
new odorants, the pups didn't react to either.
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.
Not exact matches
This latest smell prediction effort began with a recent study by olfactory researcher Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at The Rockefeller University in
New York City, in which 49 volunteers rated the smell of 476 vials of pure
odorants.
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New method for exhaustively isolating olfactory receptors responding to specific
odorants: Step toward the elucidation of a mechanism for recognizing
odorants in mammals.»
By means of the
new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of
odorants.
We developed
new methodologies and procedures that allowed us to investigate the specificity of odour recognition between
odorant binding proteins and receptors in Anopheles gambiae mosquito.