... of the fruit fly, where the ability to discriminate odors depends on receptor cells expressing different ...
... of this, children of Escape drinkers were exposed to alcohol odors more often. These children also experienced alcohol in a different ... is needed to determine whether children who dislike the odor of alcohol and experience it in a negative emotional context ...
... , undergarments and other clothing. The same technology can be used in many other applications, such as to mask unpleasant body odors when using textile products ...
... can cut nuisance emissions of dust, ammonia, and odors from poultry houses and aid in reducing neighbor ...
... nicotine or benzyl acetone; the latter has a sweet odor we know from cocoa beans and is similar to the smell ... insects which have a straightforward negative impact on reproduction. Odorant attractants lure not only pollinators but also herbivores. Tobacco ...
... responses to fruity smells, and especially to single odor components. "These flies, which have only until recently been living ... , for instance caused by the absence or the mutation of a specific odor receptor. The behaviors are rather the result of adaptations ...
... ) show a highly selective behavior towards odor stimuli. A series of behavioral studies showed ...
... at Monell and one of the paper's senior authors. "This distinctive odor can be detected using either an animal's nose or chemical ... . According to Beauchamp, similar approaches are being used to investigate body odor differences associated with disease. Such research could lead ...
... and chemical findings to reveal that an individual's underlying odor signature remains detectable even in the face ...
... neurons. Scientists have characterized the receptors that detect odors in two of these types but those receptors were mysteriously absent ... , the researchers showed that when they plucked a receptor — say one that detects an odor that resembles a mix of grass and honey — out of its native ...
... a species of tiny worm can learn to ignore an odor – information that could have implications for how human memories are formed ... , a postdoctoral researcher at the center, found that prolonged exposure to an odor boosts production of a protein that curbs the worm ...
... can promote plasticity in sensory neurons by linking odor stimulation with the synthesis of a key adaptation protein ... to long-lasting alterations, such as the presence of a persistent odor," explains senior study author Dr ...
... expect that nearby glomeruli should have similar odor sensitivities," Meister says, "but we were surprised to find this was not the case ... and Murthy suspect that the deliberate randomness in rodents' odor maps is likely also found in humans, which have only one-third as many receptors ...
... located in precisely the same location on the olfactory bulb, the brain's first processing station for odors ...
... population of neurons was activated in response to each odor, the pattern of activation differed from neuron to neuron ... , how these neurons all work together to process complex odor signals that we encounter everyday. It's evolution at its most elegant ...
