Sentences with phrase «with olfactory receptors»

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Dogs have more types of olfactory receptor than we do — but as Mainland points out, cows have more than dogs (about 1,200 compared with 800) and it's not clear that cows are significantly better at smelling.

The neurons send their signals to the brain's olfactory bulb, where each of thousands of little clusters of neurons called glomeruli receives input from olfactory neurons with just one receptor type.

GDF - 11, which regulates the growth of spinal and olfactory (smell) receptors, is produced abundantly in young mice, but production drops off with age.

«Function of olfactory receptor in the human heart identified: The new findings may be relevant in the long term for diabetic patients and patients with increased heart rates.»

In the cardiomyocytes, they activated the OR51E1 receptor with the odorant nonanoic / decanoic acid, which causes a rancid - fatty olfactory sensation.

Future studies will seek to identify how Ggamma13 interacts with other molecules within the olfactory receptor.

«This could be a consequence of the limited variety of scents to be found in the arid, alpine meadow environment, but that doesn't explain why the yak, a species that also inhabits the Tibetan Plateau, has an increased number of olfactory receptor genes compared with cattle,» Dr Subramanian said.

«The fact that the MS4As have been preserved for at least 400 million years suggests that these receptors play a crucial role in enabling animals to interact with the olfactory environment,» Datta says.

«To fully understand the loss of olfactory receptor genes in the ground tit, further comparisons need to be made with genomes of closely related species inhabiting lower altitudes.»

They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.

For this, the key odorous substances have to interact with one or more of the 400 olfactory receptors in the nose.

Once inside the nose the air swirls around up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared with our measly 6 million (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol 7, p 933).

He has found that different receptors and neurons contribute to different types of olfactory behaviors, which are further modified with experience.

The «magical world» created by his father became for Dr. Lomvardas the entry point into the real world of science, where he would one day work with Nobel laureates Eric Kandel and Richard Axel and conduct research into the molecular mechanisms of olfactory receptors — «one of the most enigmatic and complex problems in biology.»

The olfactory system is resilient, with smell receptor cells being continually replaced throughout an individual's life span.

The pure constituents in these oils stimulate olfactory receptors and activate regions in the brain's limbic system associated with memory, emotion, and state of mind.

With close to 300 million olfactory receptors at the end of your pup's snout, he can smell up to 100,000 times more than you, so the Wooly puts your furkid's nose and brain to work by mimicking a hunt for food in grass or fields.

While this may hold true for humans equipped with a mere 5 million olfactory receptors, things are drastically different from a dog's standpoint.

While it is true that equipped with more than 220 million olfactory receptors a dog's nose would be the best equipped to lead the hunt, truth is, tracking smells is also the most tiring and exhausting way to hunt (ever seen how tired a dog is after practicing nose work?).