Sentences with phrase «trigger olfactory neurons»

For example, they believe a lot of smelly chemicals — those that trigger olfactory neurons — are tied to the many stages of ripening and rotting organic materials.

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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.