Sentences with phrase «olfactory nerve»

Using flourescence imaging, the scientists tested calcium response (an important nervous system ion implicated in the symptoms of bipolar disorder) in olfactory nerve cell samples from 17 bipolar patients (10 currently taking medication, 7 medication - free) with those of matched controls.

The rich supply of olfactory nerves in their noses is directly connected to their highly developed olfactory lobe in their brains, giving the dogs the amazing ability to analyse scents.

The oils are biologically active when the airborne molecules are inhaled, stimulating olfactory nerves, which in turn stimulate centers of the brain.

A team led by Linda Buck of Harvard Medical School in Boston was able to test this proposition with mouse olfactory nerve cells.

The latest study used a microscopy technique known as soft X-ray tomography to record a series of images from small groups of dozens of frozen olfactory nerve cells in three separate stages of development.

Could olfactory nerves regenerate?

The truth is avians have relatively small and simple olfactory nerves, which limit their sense of smell.

Studies have shown that a dog's Olfactory nerve provides the dog the ability to detect scents at a rate of one in one trillion.

I like the Lavender with Chamomile, but you may find Delicious Pancakes, Bamboo Breeze or Summer Storm the perfect way to keep your fur baby from getting on your very last olfactory nerve.

One of the precursors to Alzheimer's disease, which attacks the brain's nerve cells, is a loss of smell, so understanding this connection to olfactory nerve cells could perhaps serve as a diagnostic tool and perhaps unlock a deeper understanding of the degenerative disorder.

These hormones are received through the olfactory nerves.

This nerve, discovered within the last few years, sits at the front of our brain, in front of the olfactory nerve, and is very small and fragile.

It makes your olfactory nerves want to flutter to heaven.

And then you make your olfactory nerves sing with joy when you sprinkle on the rice wine vinegar and sesame oil.

Nick smells nothing — the impact of his fall probably damaged or even killed his olfactory nerve cells, and his brain receives no information about the smell of his drink.

Unlike our other senses, the olfactory nerves do not proceed directly to the brain's thalamus, the gateway to consciousness.

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.

Both the chlamydia and herpes microbes can enter brains through the sense of smell, says Balin, and then travel up olfactory nerves to a part of the brain called the entorhinal cortex — which happens to be one of the earliest to sustain damage in Alzheimer's disease.

Each olfactory nerve cell expresses just one of these olfactory genes to produce a receptor that recognizes a related set of odors.

First, the olfactory nerve is located very close to the amygdala, the area of the brain that is connected to the experience of emotion as well as emotional memory.

In addition, the olfactory nerve is very close to the hippocampus, which is associated with memory as you learned earlier in this article.

Researchers behind the study found that the pollutant magnetite enters the brain through the olfactory nerve, the same fiber that connects the nose with the brain and allows for smell.

The parasite enters the central nervous system via the olfactory nerve in the nose.

Indeed, the olfactory nerve is the only cranial nerve that has direct contact with the environment, which is why scent has the power to conjure childhood memories, calm the system, or, like Beeler mentioned, give way to an escape.

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These molecules stimulate the olfactory nerve present in your nose (this is the nerve responsible for smell).

The olfactory nerve sends impulses to a certain part of the hypothalamus.

The olfactory nerve in our noses connect through holes in our skull directly to our brain.

↓ The olfactory nerve gives us our sense of smell and...

Me Collectors Room in Berlin is preparing an astonishing group exhibition It smells like... flowers & fragrances devoted fully to the floral world and olfactory nerves.

A person's sense of smell is typically related to damage to the nasal passages, a shearing injury to the olfactory nerve or an injury to the front temporal regions of the brain.