Sentences with phrase «odor receptors on»

For years, Ray and colleagues looked for human - skin odor receptors on the complex mosquito antenna.

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Using a «reporter gene,» Baum proved that a receptor in the anterior hypothalamus responds differently to the same odor depending on the sex of the ferret.

To really test the vibration idea, she says, scientists will need to perform more detailed studies on mammalian odor receptors.

Each odor - detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large number of options that are split into class I (fish - like) and class II (terrestrial - specific) odorant receptors.

Junji Hirota at Tokyo Tech and team focused on discovering a long - range enhancer for a large gene cluster, finding an evolutionary conserved sequence motif in mammalian evolution, and elucidating enhancer - dependent allelic preference or exclusion mechanism for odor - detecting receptor genes.

Focusing their search on receptors not known to respond to any odor, the researchers identified one family of genes that appeared to be expressed in olfactory neurons but not in other tissues.

C. elegans has the ability to distinguish between hundreds of different odors due to a range of molecules — odorant receptors — on the surface of a cluster of neurons at the tip of its head.

By genetic manipulation, Bargmann and her team swapped the receptors for two different odorants between two neurons, and produced opposite effects to those that normally occur — a receptor for an attractive odor, now on a neuron that usually responded to noxious odors, caused worms to move away from the attractive odor source.

You need a functioning sense of smell to properly taste flavor, but when you're on an airplane, the dry cabin air inhibits our odor receptors causing food to taste a bit blander than what we're used to.