Sentences with phrase «particular olfactory receptor»
There are many thousands of olfactory sensory neurons expressing any particular olfactory receptor.
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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.
Each olfactory neuron codes for only one of a thousand possible receptors that respond to particular sniffed compounds.
The received notion, as I understand it, is that molecules of a particular oderant have a unique shape that will latch on to some of the five or six million receptors in our olfactory area and thus trigger signals that cause the brain to register a particular smell.