Sentences with phrase «olfactory nerves in»

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

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

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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.

Samuel Weiss, director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, and his colleagues reported that nerve cells sprouted in the olfactory bulb, the seat of the sense of smell, and in the hippocampus, the brain's memory bank.

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.

Duke University biologist Pelin Volkan and colleagues have identified a set of genetic control switches that interact early in a fly's development to generate dozens of types of olfactory neurons, specialized nerve cells for smell.

Studies in rats and dogs have already demonstrated that olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which insulate bundles of nerve cells, can help repair damage to the spinal cord and nerves leading to animals» paws.

In that work, scientists removed olfactory ensheathing cells from the noses of dogs with complete spinal cord injuries, and injected them at the site of the severed nerves.

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

Pheromones are detected by the so - called vomeronasal organ, which sits in the nasal cavity and sets off a cascade of nerve signals that ends in the accessory olfactory bulb, the organ that processes pheromones.

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.

Furthermore, the team revealed the evidence that the genes related to muscle strength as well as energy metabolism and sensory nerves, including olfactory receptor activity and visual perception, appeared to be undergoing rapid evolution in the tiger.

Those molecules then latched onto olfactory receptors located on nerve endings in their nostrils.

Even differentiating between two rose varieties can be a snap because the human olfactory system — made up of the nerve cells in our noses and everything that allows the brain to process smell — is quite adept.

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.

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

The sense of smell is considered the first to develop in utero, and the olfactory cranial nerve is even labeled No. 1.

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.