Sentences with phrase «olfactory receptors located»

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

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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.»

Smell or olfaction occurs when chemicals stimulate olfactory receptors on a relatively small patch of tissue located high in the nasal cavity.

Four of these six regions are located in known gene clusters: the protocadherin alpha cluster, two olfactory receptor clusters and a recently identified human microRNA cluster (Figure 2).

The olfactory receptor clusters located on chromosome 1 and chromosome 11 are less methylated in CPA compared to controls (scale log2 fold differences: − 0.2 to 0.2).