Sentences with phrase «olfactory receptor neurons in»

The team uses a computer - controlled pneumatic pump to administer an odor puff to the locust, which has olfactory receptor neurons in its antennae, similar to sensory neurons in our nose.

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In Nick's case, the cause was probably catastrophic damage to his olfactory receptor neurons.

Toxicants like solvents, pesticides or volatile molecules from oil spills can travel straight into the brain via the olfactory receptors — nasal neurons that number in the many millions, thickly studding the inner lining of the nose.

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.

This visual abstract depicts the discovery that chemosensory receptors in a subset of mammalian olfactory sensing neurons are structurally distinct from GPCRs, and multiple subtypes are expressed per neuron, implying an unexpected mechanism for olfactory detection and decoding.

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.

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.

Caffeine potentiated responses of mushroom body neurons involved in olfactory learning and memory by acting as an adenosine receptor antagonist.

Next, the researchers tested whether neurons in the insects» olfactory receptors, or sensilla, responded to nonanal.

The isoforms beta ARK - 2 and beta - arrestin - 2 are highly enriched in and localized to the dendritic knobs and cilia of the olfactory receptor neurons where the initial events of olfactory signal transduction occur.

Focusing their search on receptors not known to respond to any odor, the researchers identified one family of genes that appeared to be expressed in olfactory neurons but not in other tissues.

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These cues are detected via olfactory (OR), trace - amine associated (TAAR), vomeronasal (VR) and formyl - peptide (FPR) receptors expressed by the sensory neurons in the epithelia of these organs.

The odorant receptor - dependent role of olfactory marker protein in olfactory receptor neurons.