Sentences with phrase «olfactory receptors in»

While the front part of a dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farmer.

According to research from Auburn University, dogs have more than 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses, while humans have only 5 million.

Dogs possess 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in humans.

Your dog has some 300 million olfactory receptors in his nose, and that means he can smell things that you can't.

Canines have approximately 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, whereas humans...

Scents — Dogs love to sniff and have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses (compared to about 6 million in humans).

Dogs have keen senses of smell; they have 220 million olfactory receptors in their nose, or 44 times more than humans.

There are more than 350 types of olfactory receptors in the nose, tuned to different scents.

For this, the key odorous substances have to interact with one or more of the 400 olfactory receptors in the nose.

These compounds are then decoded by around 400 olfactory receptors in the nose.

New study has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue.»

But now a new study, published in Frontiers in Physiology, has found two olfactory receptors in human lung tissue.

The researchers identified more than 1000 olfactory receptors in the soft - shell turtle, which is one of the largest numbers ever to be found in a non-mammalian vertebrate.

«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.»

Not exact matches

A baby in the cradle carry is too far removed from your main olfactory receptors and an important way of bonding is lost.

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

In 2004 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptorIn 2004 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptorin Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptors.

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.

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.

McRae and colleagues found that the genetic variants associated all lie in or near genes that encode so - called odorant or olfactory receptors.

In contrast, the typical person's nose has 400 olfactory receptors.

GDF - 11, which regulates the growth of spinal and olfactory (smell) receptors, is produced abundantly in young mice, but production drops off with age.

The researchers scoured the already deciphered mouse genome, looking for genes that might encode additional receptor proteins in its olfactory system, the sensory cells that connect the nose to the brain.

In the case of SISSA's Neurobiology Laboratory, the focus was on the genes of olfactory receptors which, surprisingly, are also present in the cells that synthesise dopamine and that die in Parkinson's diseasIn the case of SISSA's Neurobiology Laboratory, the focus was on the genes of olfactory receptors which, surprisingly, are also present in the cells that synthesise dopamine and that die in Parkinson's diseasin the cells that synthesise dopamine and that die in Parkinson's diseasin Parkinson's disease.

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.

No one had previously suspected that olfactory receptors would be present in airways past the nasal cavity.

In the cardiomyocytes, they activated the OR51E1 receptor with the odorant nonanoic / decanoic acid, which causes a rancid - fatty olfactory sensation.

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.

«This could be a consequence of the limited variety of scents to be found in the arid, alpine meadow environment, but that doesn't explain why the yak, a species that also inhabits the Tibetan Plateau, has an increased number of olfactory receptor genes compared with cattle,» Dr Subramanian said.

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.

Mice engineered to be lacking the Ggamma13 protein in their olfactory receptors were functionally anosmic — unable to smell.

«The fact that the MS4As have been preserved for at least 400 million years suggests that these receptors play a crucial role in enabling animals to interact with the olfactory environment,» Datta says.

Dogs can do that because their noses contain 900 different types of olfactory receptors, chemical detectors in cells that respond to many different kinds of odor molecules in particular ways.

«To fully understand the loss of olfactory receptor genes in the ground tit, further comparisons need to be made with genomes of closely related species inhabiting lower altitudes.»

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.

«New method for exhaustively isolating olfactory receptors responding to specific odorants: Step toward the elucidation of a mechanism for recognizing odorants in mammals.»

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

As all three studied insect species emerged at different times in insect evolution, the scientists wanted to track the historical development of olfactory receptors.

Christine Mißbach, first author of the study, analyzed the active genes in the insect antennae where the olfactory receptors are located and describes her discovery this way: «Astonishingly, the firebrat, which is more closely related to flying insects, employs several co-receptors, while the odorant receptors themselves are absent.»

In the cultivated cells, the team detected a number of typical olfactory receptors.

However, the researchers did not find any evidence for an olfactory system which is based on odorant receptors in the most basal insect, the jumping bristletail.

They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.

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.

The Amur tiger genome was predicted to contain 20,226 protein - coding genes and 2,935 non-coding RNAs, and was enriched in olfactory receptor sensitivity, amino - acid transport, and metabolic - related genes, among others.

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.

For instance, in the human genome we still see the remnants of the large olfactory receptor gene family that gave our evolutionary ancestors a keen sense of smell, even though humans no longer rely on them.

Newly discovered receptors (white dots) in the olfactory epithelium may detect pheromones.

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.