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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"odor coding"”.
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The Role of Drosophila Odorant Receptors in Odor Coding
… research, the expression patterns of fly's 62 odorant receptors (ORs) were largely unknown. I set out to understand the rules of connectivity of olfactory sensory neurons and the resulting properties of olfactory circuit. Consequently, we assembled maps of the olfactory neuron projections in …
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Non-Canonical Odor Coding Ensures Robust Mosquito Attraction to Humans
… dioxide (CO2) emitted from breath and human body odor, which is a mixture of more than 200 different individual odorants. Although the exact odor profile of people varies considerably, Aedes aegypti are incredibly reliable in finding humans to bite, despite widespread efforts to by humans to mask …
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Cracking the Odor Code: Molecular and Cellular Deconstruction of the Olfactory Circuit of Drosophila Larvae
… molecular and neuronal mechanisms of larval odor coding. First, the larval odorant receptor (OR) repertoire was characterized. ORs define the olfactory receptive range of an animal. Each of the 21 larval olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) expresses one or rarely two ORs, along with the highly …
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Olfactory Processing in the Piriform Cortex of Awake, Freely Moving Mice
… PC neurons can accurately decode the identity of odors, leading to delineation of PC as the primary cortical region involved in the formation of odor perception. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, many of the prior studies establishing these coding principles were performed without the …
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Modulation and Ligand Selectivity of Mammalian Odorant Receptors
… of smell starts with the activation of odorant receptors (ORs) by volatile molecules in the environment. Mammalian genomes typically encode large numbers of ORs, with approximately 400 intact ORs in human and more than 1000 in mouse. Central to the question of how olfactory stimuli are …
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Starved State Dependent Modulation of Olfactory Receptor Neuron Function in Drosophila melanogaster larvae
… regarding sensory neuron responses to food odorants and modulation of these responses by hunger, much less is known about the extent of modulation that exists among individual sensory neurons and its impact on driving behavioral output. We hypothesized that starvation differentially alters …