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Odorant Receptor Desensitization in Insects
Journal of Experimental Neuroscience, 2017 Insects and other arthropods transmit devastating human diseases, and these vectors use chemical senses to target humans. Understanding how these animals detect, respond, and adapt to volatile odorants may lead to novel ways to disrupt host localization ...
Hao Guo, Dean P Smith
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Phenylthiophenecarboxamide antagonists of the olfactory receptor co-receptor subunit from a mosquito. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Insects detect environmental chemicals using chemosensory receptors, such as the ORs, a family of odorant-gated ion channels. Insect ORs are multimeric complexes of unknown stoichiometry, formed by a common subunit (the odorant receptor co-receptor ...
Sisi Chen, Charles W Luetje
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Genetic elucidation of human hyperosmia to isovaleric acid.
PLoS Biology, 2007 The genetic basis of odorant-specific variations in human olfactory thresholds, and in particular of enhanced odorant sensitivity (hyperosmia), remains largely unknown.
Idan Menashe +6 more
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Technologies, 2018 There is an interest in sensors for the detection of odorant molecules in the gaseous phase, especially those related to the fragrance of fruits, because odorant sensing is useful for on-site quality control of agricultural products.
Kai Sasaki +3 more
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Kinetics of Odorant Recognition with a Graphene-Based Olfactory Receptor Mimicry
Chemosensors, 2022 Malaria vector mosquito species rely on a handful of specific pheromones for mating; one of them, sulcatone (6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one), is also found in human exudation.
Caroline Bonazza, Klaus Bonazza
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Role of the odorant receptor in neuronal connectivity in the olfactory bulb
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015 Olfaction is a highly sophisticated sensory modality able to detect and discriminate thousands of different odours, even at very low concentration. How such a challenging task is achieved remains to be fully understood.
Nelly Redolfi, Claudia Lodovichi
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Neural Development, 2012 Background The defining feature of the main olfactory system in mice is that each olfactory sensory neuron expresses only one of more than a thousand different odorant receptor genes.
Knott Thomas K +6 more
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Journal of Integrative AgricultureInsects depend on sophisticated olfactory systems for essential behaviors, with odorant receptors (ORs) lying at the core of odor detection. Spodoptera frugiperda is a major global agricultural pest, but the response profiles of its ORs remain largely ...
Xiaoqing Wang +4 more
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Rapid encoding and perception of novel odors in the rat. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2008 To gain insight into which parameters of neural activity are important in shaping the perception of odors, we combined a behavioral measure of odor perception with optical imaging of odor representations at the level of receptor neuron input to the rat ...
Daniel W Wesson +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 Targeted spatial transcriptomics mapped olfactory receptor mRNAs to sections of the murine olfactory bulb to generate an interactive, statistical, 3D model of glomeruli locations and identify an ultra-sensitive receptor-odorant relationship.
Kevin W. Zhu +6 more
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