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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003

Coordination of central odor representations through transient, non-oscillatory synchronization of glomerular output neurons.

Thomas A Christensen, Hong Lei, John G Hildebrand

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Synchronous firing of antennal-lobe projection neurons encodes the behaviorally effective ratio of sex-pheromone components in male Manduca sexta.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013
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  9. Mixture and odorant processing in the olfactory systems of insects: a comparative perspective.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013
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  12. Interaction of cellular and network mechanisms for efficient pheromone coding in moths.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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  16. Neural correlates of behavior in the moth Manduca sexta in response to complex odors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009
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  19. Natural stimuli evoke dynamic sequences of states in sensory cortical ensembles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2007
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  20. Processing of odor mixtures in the Drosophila antennal lobe reveals both global inhibition and glomerulus-specific interactions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2007
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas A ChristensenArizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210077, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA. tc@neurobio.arizona.edu
Hong Lei
John G Hildebrand
University of Arizona · US

Funding

GLOMERULI AS FUNCTIONAL UNITS FOR OLFACTORY CODINGR01DC002751 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI HILDEBRAND, JOHN G · 1995 to 2013
$4.1M
TRAINING ON USE OF PROBES: NEUROPHYSIOLOGISTSP41RR009754 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ALTSCHULER, RICHARD A · 1994 to 2002
$3.2M
AMINERGIC MODULATION UNDERLYING OLFACTORY PLASTICITYR01DC005652 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI NIGHORN, ALAN J · 2003 to 2007
$1.4M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR09754NIDCD NIH HHS DC-02751NIDCD NIH HHS DC-05652NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC002751NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At the first stage of processing in the olfactory pathway, the patterns of glomerular activity evoked by different scents are both temporally and spatially dynamic. In the antennal lobe (AL) of some insects, coherent firing of AL projection neurons (PNs) can be phase-locked to network oscillations, and it has been proposed that oscillatory synchronization of PN activity may encode the chemical identity of the olfactory stimulus. It remains unclear, however, how the brain uses this time-constrained mechanism to encode chemical identity when the stimulus itself is unpredictably dynamic. In the olfactory pathway of the moth Manduca sexta,we find that different odorants evoke gamma-band oscillations in the AL and the mushroom body (a higher-order network that receives input from the AL), but oscillations within or between these two processing stages are not temporally coherent. Moreover, the timing of action potential firing in PNs is not phase-locked to oscillations in either the AL or mushroom body, and the correlation between PN synchrony and field oscillations remains low before, during, and after olfactory stimulation. These results demonstrate that olfactory circuits in the moth are specialized to preserve time-varying signals in the insect's olfactory space, and that stimulus dynamics rather than intrinsic oscillations modulate the uniquely coordinated pattern of PN synchronization evoked by each olfactory stimulus. We propose that non-oscillatory synchronization provides an adaptive mechanism by which PN ensembles can encode stimulus identity while concurrently monitoring the unpredictable dynamics in the olfactory signal that typically occur under natural stimulus conditions.

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OdorantsAnimalsMaleManducaNeurons

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PMID12960372
PMCPMC196929
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