Sentences with phrase «olfactory signals»

Dr Bill Dew said: «Our research shows that copper affects the function of a specific type of olfactory neurons in fish, preventing them from detecting important olfactory signals used to detect fish injured by predation.»
Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain.
And it's hard to overlook the many swear words that are related to orifices or activities that also emit pheromonic olfactory signals.
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.
«In a complex odor environment where social bees must respond appropriately to dozens of pheromones in the hive but also to learned olfactory signals from rewarding flowers,» Chittka says, «two parallel but intertwined pathways with overlapping functions but different priorities in the gradient from innate to learnt odor responses of various complexities might provide the required flexibility.»
Alternatively, both sexes may detect all mammalian olfactory signals equally, but interpret them differently due to sexually dimorphic central circuits [35].
One natural guess is that the olfactory signal in tears is consistent with the familiar visual signal.
The app's matching algorithm analyzes 11 special «attraction genes» supposedly linked to our pheromones — olfactory signals that some believe trigger attraction.
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