Sentences with phrase «olfactory function»
«Declines in olfactory function have been shown to be among the earliest signs of brain - related neurodegenerative diseases, but we need more data to better understand this connection,» said Monell olfactory scientist Pamela Dalton, PhD, MPH.
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«Adding an olfactory assessment to the BHR's large existing database may yield the best information yet on the predictive relationship of olfactory function to neurodegenerative disease.»
The findings revealed a clear link between a woman's olfactory ability and her overall social life score: women with good olfactory ability tended to have more active social lives while those with diminished olfactory function were associated with a poorer social life score.
During this time, her research focused on nutritional modulation of olfactory function, neuronal development and regeneration, and chemosensory cell biology.
For humans approximately two - thirds of these receptors are no longer functional, possibly a consequence of the reduced importance of olfactory function for humans as compared to rodents or dogs, for example.
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Their findings, published in 1991, opened many doors toward understanding the function of the olfactory system.
It can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years, and olfactory tests have been shown to do a better job than motor function tests when it comes to distinguishing Parkinson's patients from healthy control subjects.
«Function of olfactory receptor in the human heart identified: The new findings may be relevant in the long term for diabetic patients and patients with increased heart rates.»
Regardless, sniffing out this unexpected function of an olfactory receptor may inspire exciting new medical developments.
It was always thought that olfactory receptors» sole bodily function was to smell, and could only be found inside a nose.
Knowing these larvae respond to odors but not fully understanding the process by which they make decisions via olfactory cues, scientists at UC Santa Barbara are using this model organism to study brain function as it relates to behavior control.
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.
The team, which reported its findings online earlier this month in Palaeontology, found that the brain's optic lobes were particularly large; so were the cerebellum, which controls motor functions, and the olfactory region, where odors are processed.
More broadly, a better grasp of how olfactory receptor sensitivity depends on chemical structure could reveal universal secrets of receptor function, Firestein adds.
The team, which reports the find online today in Current Biology, points out that some duckbills had bony crests on their heads, which are easily preserved in fossil form, and that researchers had suggested functions for such crests ranging from sexual display to external olfactory organs.
Epigenetically - effected hypothalamic GnRH secretion is central to my model of nutrient - dependent pheromone - controlled adaptive evolution, which was presented as «Olfactory - genetic - neuronal - hormonal reciprocity in learning, memory, behavior and in immune function» during a 1995 Anti-Aging medicine conference.
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.
We included genes with and without a known function in olfactory and vomeronasal signaling that cover the whole range of expression values observed (Table S1).
PHILADELPHIA (March 22, 2017)-- A new study of older U.S. adults conducted by researchers from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions reports that a woman's social life is associated with how well her olfactory system functions.
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.
The scent of previous elimination sites can function as an olfactory cue for elimination behavior.
Scratching serves multiple functions for cats and is necessary for grooming the front claws and both visual and olfactory communication1, 2.
Although the production of chemical signals, their perception through olfactory processes, and the behavioral response to these signals plays a central role in domesticated cat communication and behavior (especially social behavior), the function, scope and importance of these abilities are often not given the same level of attention dedicated to other domesticated species (e.g. dogs or pigs), which may lead some to erroneously underestimate the significance of this communication modality in cats.
By contrast, experiments simulating future ocean acidification suggest that interference of high CO2 with brain neurotransmitter function is the primary cause for olfactory - mediated behavioural impairment in fish.