Sentences with phrase «of olfactory system»

The vomeronasal organ, which is part of the olfactory system, detects pheromones.

The nature of the olfactory system makes it a valuable tool to help identify the onset and early stages of neurodegenerative disorders, which are difficult to diagnose before symptoms appear.

Because the BHR also includes longitudinal data from many healthy adults, the collaboration may also increase knowledge about the basic functioning of the olfactory system beyond its role in brain disorders.

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.

The cellular functioning of the olfactory system, which processes the activity patterns of individual sensory neurons to produce the extraordinarily precise mammalian sense of smell.

The organization of the olfactory system reflects the need to recognize a wide range of odors and to discriminate one odor from another.

Those that are destined to be part of the olfactory system head to two clumps of nerves in the brain called clusters 9 and 10.

Recently, Jim and his students have been studying the olfactory systems of different types of animals for evidence that the cerebral cortex as a whole grew out of the olfactory system.

This work also sheds new light on the still poorly known functioning of the olfactory system, and notably how information is processed in the brain.

Kenyon cells make up only about 4 % of the entire fly brain and are extremely sensitive to inputs triggered by odors, in which only two connections between neurons, called synapses, separate them from the receptor cells at the «front end» of the olfactory system.

Using a technique that measures the response of the olfactory system to odours, the researchers showed that copper and nickel affect the ability of different cells to detect odours.

Their findings, published in 1991, opened many doors toward understanding the function of the olfactory system.

I ending up having to take the bag with me on my way to work, stealthily depositing it in a garbage well beyond the vicinity of my olfactory system.

Not exact matches

For the adventurous, this olfactory exploration involves surrounding yourself with herbs, spices and oils designed to activate your limbic system — the part of your brain that governs emotions and memories.

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

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.

The finding is based on the results of experiments that saw the connection between temporary elimination of olfactory, smell system, neurones in the noses of adult mice, and weight loss.

With our unrivalled breadth of taste systems, Kerry can tackle the whole taste experience, from the first visual cues through to the satisfying sensation after the last traces of aroma reach the olfactory bulb.

The gustatory and olfactory systems during infancy: Implications for development of feeding behaviors in the high risk neonate.

Their research suggests that taste and olfactory systems operate in utero within the amniotic fluid and that breast milk serves as a sort of flavor bridge to the time of weaning.

For example, the identification of your breast smell and that of your baby's is stored in both your olfactory system memories.

They use the e-liquid which contains various types of flavors that leave a good smell in your olfactory system.

Some anatomical studies indicated that T. rex could not run quickly, while an examination of the creature's braincase showed it had an outsize olfactory system.

Our olfactory system depends on approximately 400 receptors to give us our sense of smell.

Despite having replaced at least a subset of the olfactory sensory neurons that first interacted with that wine's unique odor, you are still able to recognize its aroma when you pour a glass, because the overall pattern of activity within the olfactory system remains relatively constant.

At the center of their investigation was also the question of how D. suzukii developed its preference for fresh fruits and how this specialization could be traced physiologically in the insect's olfactory system.

Similarly, Doty says there is an argument to be made for calling the olfactory system the origin of Parkinson's but adds this is «probably an oversimplification.»

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.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

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.

You hook into the olfactory system of the hawk moth and build a bomb - sniffing robot that has the drive electronics of a regular robot and the nose of a hawk moth.

As in mammalian olfactory systems, sensory neurons responsive to the same kinds of odors converge in a spherical structure called the glomerulus.

Now, Minghong Ma, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Penn doctoral student Andrew Moberly, have added neurons associated with the olfactory system to the connection between behavior and breathing.

The pattern of activity of all sensory neurons in the olfactory system allows us to distinguish between different odors present in the environment.

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.

Moreover, each necklace neuron expresses multiple types of MS4A receptors, in stark contrast to the one - receptor - per - neuron rule that organizes insect and other mammalian olfactory systems.

This specificity allowed the researchers to characterize the effect of Ggamma13 deletion on the olfactory system without interference from changes in other tissues.

Paying attention to the fact that each olfactory sensory neuron (OSN) expresses an OR, Shun «ichi Kuroda, Professor and Nobuo Yoshimoto, Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Biomolecular Science and Reaction, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University in cooperation with Masato Suzuki, Chief Researcher, Advanced Research Division, Panasonic Corporation made a system in which OSNs from mice were applied to a microchamber array on a microscope slide and fluorescence was yielded when ORs responded to odorants.

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.

Somehow, the mouse olfactory system had to evolve a way to adjust, to encode incoming sensory information so that it doesn't saturate the firing range of olfactory neurons.»

As it happens, the olfactory system actually has two parts: One detects general odors, and the other, the pheromonic system, detects very specific, strong odors given off by other animals (usually of the same species), typically related to fear or mating.

They suspect that the way the olfactory system is organized has little to do with how an organic chemist might organize molecules (for instance, by the number of carbon atoms on each molecule); instead, it more closely resembles the complex way that chemicals are associated in the real world.

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.

The very complex olfactory system of modern insects is therefore not an adaptation to a terrestrial environment when ancient insects migrated from water to land, but rather an adaptation that appeared when insects developed the ability to fly.

Olfactory - auditory integration adds to a growing list of intimate connections between sensory systems.

They also could see that exposure to the scent of a banana activated neural connections in the olfactory system that were different from those activated when the fly smelled jasmine.

Ewald Große - Wilde and Bill S. Hansson and their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now taken a closer look at the olfactory system of wingless insects, which − in evolutionary terms − are older than winged insects: the jumping bristletail Lepismachilis y - signata and the firebrat Thermobia domestica, which are both wingless, as well as the leaf insect Phyllium siccifolium, which is winged and was used as a control.

The variants that are insensitive make less of a key protein that senses ascarosides in their olfactory system than those that are sensitive.

Olfactory cells in the nose are unusual in that they are part of the body's outer layer, or epithelium, but also part of the nervous system, incorporating neurons that connect directly with the smell centers in the brain.