Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

The paper studies chemosensory tuning in mouse accessory olfactory bulb external granule cells, finding their sparser tuning compared to mitral cells, suggesting distinct functional roles.

The paper investigates odor responses in mouse olfactory sensory neurons, finding inhibition, antagonism, and synergy at the peripheral stage.

The paper identifies bile acid-sensitive vomeronasal receptors in mice using a physiology-forward approach combining calcium imaging and RNA-seq.

The paper investigates how molecular complexity of odorants affects perception of odor mixtures as elemental or configural.

The paper shows that mouse olfactory sensory neurons use acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) to detect acidic stimuli independently of type III adenylyl cyclase.

This study shows that the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) is critical for context-dependent odor learning, while ventral hippocampus (vHC) lesions affect both olfactory and texture context learning.

This study shows that olfactory co-stimulation improves the localization of weak intranasal somatosensory stimuli when the stimuli are delivered to the same nostril.

The paper shows that interhemispheric connections in zebrafish olfactory bulbs enhance odor detection by modulating neural responses to pheromones in complex environments.

The paper uses SCAPE microscopy to study odor responses in mouse olfactory neurons, finding widespread receptor modulation in response to odor mixtures.

This paper shows that activating the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) suppresses odor responses across different odors and concentrations, and inhibits mitral/tufted cells in the olfactory bulb.

This study shows that mouse mitral cells in the olfactory bulb flexibly represent odour categories based on task demands, with changes in response patterns following learning.

The paper investigates axonal branching patterns of olfactory receptor neurons in amphibians and challenges the unbranched axon concept as a universal vertebrate feature.

This paper introduces a non-invasive method to record neural activity from the human olfactory bulb using EEG, termed Electrobulbogram (EBG), which is reliable and localized to the OB.

The paper compares odor responses in medial and lateral glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb, finding that medial glomeruli show stronger respiration-linked calcium fluctuations.

The paper shows that the olfactory bulb's wiring diagram enables odor representation whitening by suppressing redundant responses through reciprocal inhibition.

The paper clusters spatial gene expression profiles in the olfactory bulb mitral cell layer and identifies dorsoventral physiological differences.

The paper identifies molecular receptive ranges of olfactory glomeruli using machine learning and physiological measurements, revealing a chemical map underlying their arrangement.

The paper uses machine learning to predict olfactory receptor-odorant pairs and basal activity from sequence data, identifying key residues that determine selectivity and activity.

This study shows that aversive learning increases the release probability of olfactory sensory neurons in mice, correlating with freezing behavior during fear retrieval.

This study adapts the novel-object recognition task to measure how C57BL/6J male mice allocate attention to objects labeled with female odour versus other odours or novel objects.

The paper examines structural brain changes in individuals with congenital olfactory loss, finding atrophy in olfactory sulci and increased volume in medial orbital gyri, suggesting differential plasticity in secondary vs. primary olfactory cortex.

The paper shows that recurrent circuitry in piriform cortex stabilizes odor representations despite degraded input, supporting pattern completion in an associative network.

The paper demonstrates real-time detection of Ca2+ and cAMP signaling from olfactory receptors expressed in HEK293TN cells using fluorescent biosensors.

The paper compares V1R gene diversity in nocturnal and diurnal lemurs, finding a correlation between nocturnality and expanded V1R repertoires.

The paper predicts olfactory receptor responses to odors using sequence data and conspecific receptor responses, showing significant agreement with experiments.

The paper shows that glomerular odor representations' similarity and activation strength determine the time needed for odor discrimination, independent of sniffing behavior.

The paper identifies a subset of olfactory and vomeronasal sensory neurons expressing Foxj1-driven eGFP, lacking motile cilia but showing distinct spatial distribution and axonal termination patterns.

This study shows that Smad4 signaling is essential for the development, function, and circuit formation of basal vomeronasal sensory neurons.

The paper investigates interactions between olfactory and trigeminal systems in the nasal cavity and finds no evidence of cross-talk between them.

This study shows that the olfactory tubercle, not the posterior piriform cortex, rapidly encodes reward category during odor-reward learning, preceding motor actions.