An update on anatomy and function of the teleost olfactory system [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 About half of all extant vertebrates are teleost fishes. Although our knowledge about anatomy and function of their olfactory systems still lags behind that of mammals, recent advances in cellular and molecular biology have provided us with a wealth of ...
Jesús Olivares, Oliver Schmachtenberg
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The source of spontaneous activity in the main olfactory bulb of the rat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In vivo, most neurons in the main olfactory bulb exhibit robust spontaneous activity. This paper tests the hypothesis that spontaneous activity in olfactory receptor neurons drives much of the spontaneous activity in mitral and tufted cells via ...
Josif Stakic +3 more
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Synaptophysin and synaptoporin expression in the developing rat olfactory system [PDF]
, 1993 The expressions of two closely related synaptic vesicle antigens synaptophysin and synaptoporin were examined in the olfactory system of the adult rat and during pre- and postnatal development.
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Expressing exogenous functional odorant receptors in cultured olfactory sensory neurons
Neural Development, 2008 Background Olfactory discrimination depends on the large numbers of odorant receptor genes and differential ligand-receptor signaling among neurons expressing different receptors.
Fomina Alla F +3 more
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Induction of Associative Olfactory Memory by Targeted Activation of Single Olfactory Neurons in Drosophila Larvae [PDF]
, 2014 It has been postulated that associative memory is formed by at least two sets of external stimuli, CS and US, that are transmitted to the memory centers by distinctive conversing pathways.
Furukubo-Tokunaga Katsuo +5 more
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Signal Amplification in Drosophila Olfactory Receptor Neurons [PDF]
Neuron, 2019 Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) transform scant chemical inputs into significant neural signals. This transformation requires signal amplification. In this issue of Neuron, Ng et al. (2019) identified a mechanism by which the signals evoked by pheromones are amplified in the ORNs that selectively promote courtship behavior in Drosophila.
Byoung Soo, Kim, Greg S B, Suh
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Signaling by olfactory receptor neurons near threshold [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 An important contributing factor for the high sensitivity of sensory systems is the exquisite sensitivity of the sensory receptor cells. We report here the signaling threshold of the olfactory receptor neuron (ORN). We first obtained a best estimate of the size of the physiological electrical response successfully triggered by a single odorant-binding ...
Vikas, Bhandawat +2 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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Chemo- and Thermosensory Responsiveness of Grueneberg Ganglion Neurons Relies on Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate Signaling Elements [PDF]
, 2011 Neurons of the Grueneberg ganglion (GG) in the anterior nasal region of mouse pups respond to cool temperatures and to a small set of odorants. While the thermosensory reactivity appears to be mediated by elements of a cyclic guanosine monophosphate ...
Berghard A +47 more
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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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