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January 1, 2025
Olfaction is an integral component of sensory perception. It is responsible for our ability to detect, discriminate, and interpret an extensive array of volatile environmental stimuli. Essential to this complex network are the olfactory sensory neurons, sp ...
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December 1, 2014
The discovery and characterization of odorant receptors (ORs) beginning in the early 1990s have opened up the ability to study olfaction from a molecular perspective. Hundreds of OR genes that differ between organisms exist, and each gene codes for a G pro ...
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December 1, 2014
Molecular mechanisms of olfaction have been intensively studied in the last quarter century. Receptors by which olfactory stimuli are detected are vastly different between different animal species and even between different olfactory organs of the same spe ...
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January 1, 2014
Taste plays an important role for organisms in determining the properties of ingested substances by conveying important information on five basic taste modalities—sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Sweet, salty, and umami taste modalities convey the ca ...
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December 1, 2013
Odorant-receptor interactions constitute a key step in the olfactory detection of chemical compounds. Various studies support the combinatorial coding of olfaction, in which each odorant activates an array of odorant receptors and each odorant receptor is ...
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