Sentences with phrase «olfactory pathways»

Initially, Ray and Pham investigated conservation of insect olfactory pathways to do the current research.

«And the olfactory pathways are already known to be particularly susceptible to electrical and chemical kindling.

Neuroscientist Steven Jacobson and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have determined that the virus makes its entry to the human brain through the olfactory pathway, right along with the odors wafting into our nose.

Not exact matches

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.

Testing both for odor identification and got the odor detection threshold could determine whether abnormalities could be traced to olfactory neurons in the nasal passages or to the odor processing pathways in the brain.

These regions receive quite crude olfactory information very early in the brain's smell processing pathways, which may explain why people have such a hard time identifying odors.

They placed human neural stem cells in the rostral migration stream — a pathway in the rat brain that carries cells towards the olfactory bulb, which governs the animal's sense of smell.

They placed human neural stem cells in the rostral migration stream — a pathway in the rat brain that carries cells toward the olfactory bulb, which governs the animal's sense of smell.

For the OM, enriched genes are dominated by those encoding ORs and, those involved in the olfactory transduction pathway and sensory perception.

Background: Olfactory receptors (ORs) recognize odorant molecules and activate a signal transduction pathway that ultimately leads to the perception of smell.

«Where humans take long inhales and exhales through one pathway, dogs inhale and exhale about five times per second and have separate olfactory and respiratory routes in their noses.»