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Odour Transduction in Olfactory Receptor Neurons
The Chinese Journal of Physiology, 2010 The molecular mechanisms that control the binding of odorant to olfactory receptors and transduce this signal into membrane depolarization are reviewed. They are compared in vertebrates and insects for interspecific (allelochemicals) and intraspecific (pheromones) olfactory signals. Attempts to develop quantitative models of these multistage signalling
Rospars, Jean-Pierre +3 more
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CD36 is involved in oleic acid detection by the murine olfactory system.
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Olfactory signals influence food intake in a variety of species. To maximize the chances of finding a source of calories, an animal’s preference for fatty foods and triglycerides already becomes apparent during olfactory food search behavior.
Sonja eOberland +10 more
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Cholinergic calcium responses in cultured antennal lobe neurons of the migratory locust
Scientific Reports, 2021 Locusts are advantageous organisms to elucidate mechanisms of olfactory coding at the systems level. Sensory input is provided by the olfactory receptor neurons of the antenna, which send their axons into the antennal lobe. So far, cellular properties of
Gregor A. Bergmann, Gerd Bicker
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Unitary response of mouse olfactory receptor neurons [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 The sense of smell begins with odorant molecules binding to membrane receptors on the cilia of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), thereby activating a G protein, G olf , and the downstream effector enzyme, an adenylyl cyclase (ACIII).
Yair, Ben-Chaim +2 more
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The smell of blue light: a new approach towards understanding an olfactory neuronal network
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2011 Olfaction is one of the most important senses throughout the animal kingdom. It enables animals to discriminate between a wide variety of attractive and repulsive odorants and often plays a decisive role in species specific communication. In recent years
Klemens F Störtkuhl, André eFiala
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 Previous studies suggested that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may gain access to the brain by using a route along the olfactory nerve. However, there is a general consensus that the obligatory virus entry receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), is not ...
Katarzyna Bilinska +2 more
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Odorant Responsiveness of Squid Olfactory Receptor Neurons [PDF]
The Anatomical Record, 2008 AbstractIn the olfactory organ of the squid, Lolliguncula brevis there are five morphological types of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs). Previous work to characterize odor sensitivity of squid ORNs was performed on only two of the five types in dissociated primary cell cultures. Here, we sought to establish the odorant responsiveness of all five types.
Arie Sitthichai, Mobley +2 more
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Biophysical mechanisms underlying olfactory receptor neuron dynamics [PDF]
Nature Neuroscience, 2011 The responses of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) to odors have complex dynamics. Using genetics and pharmacology, we found that these dynamics in Drosophila ORNs could be separated into sequential steps, corresponding to transduction and spike generation. Each of these steps contributed distinct dynamics.
Nagel, Katherine I., Wilson, Rachel I.
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017 Understanding the mechanisms involved in maintaining lifelong neurogenesis has a clear biological and clinical interest. In the present study, we performed olfactory nerve transection on larval Xenopus to induce severe damage to the olfactory circuitry ...
Sara J. Hawkins +13 more
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Hedonic taste in Drosophila revealed by olfactory receptors expressed in taste neurons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Taste and olfaction are each tuned to a unique set of chemicals in the outside world, and their corresponding sensory spaces are mapped in different areas in the brain.
Makoto Hiroi +2 more
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