Sentences with phrase «surface odorant receptors»

With similar precision, Professor Bargmann has also identified many of the intracellular signalling pathways in C. elegans that relay information from cell surface odorant receptors (G protein - coupled receptors) to the interior of each sensory neuron.

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The odorant receptor molecules sit on the surface of sensory nerve cells in our nose.

C. elegans has the ability to distinguish between hundreds of different odors due to a range of molecules — odorant receptors — on the surface of a cluster of neurons at the tip of its head.