ReviewThe Journal of comparative neurology2007
Chemotopic odorant coding in a mammalian olfactory system.
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- Encoding innately recognized odors via a generalized population code.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Therapeutic Effect and Mechanisms of Essential Oils in Mood Disorders: Interaction between the Nervous and Respiratory Systems.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- An Evolutionary Microcircuit Approach to the Neural Basis of High Dimensional Sensory Processing in Olfaction.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Endogenous zinc nanoparticles in the rat olfactory epithelium are functionally significant.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Dynamic Impairment of Olfactory Behavior and Signaling Mediated by an Olfactory Corticofugal System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals the coding logic of olfactory perception.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2020Article
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- Computational exploration of molecular receptive fields in the olfactory bulb reveals a glomerulus-centric chemical map.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Human Olfaction without Apparent Olfactory Bulbs.Neuron · 2020Article
- Subpopulations of Projection Neurons in the Olfactory Bulb.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2020Review
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Abstract
Systematic mapping studies involving 365 odorant chemicals have shown that glomerular responses in the rat olfactory bulb are organized spatially in patterns that are related to the chemistry of the odorant stimuli. This organization involves the spatial clustering of principal responses to numerous odorants that share key aspects of chemistry such as functional groups, hydrocarbon structural elements, and/or overall molecular properties related to water solubility. In several of the clusters, responses shift progressively in position according to odorant carbon chain length. These response domains appear to be constructed from orderly projections of sensory neurons in the olfactory epithelium and may also involve chromatography across the nasal mucosa. The spatial clustering of glomerular responses may serve to "tune" the principal responses of bulbar projection neurons by way of inhibitory interneuronal networks, allowing the projection neurons to respond to a narrower range of stimuli than their associated sensory neurons. When glomerular activity patterns are viewed relative to the overall level of glomerular activation, the patterns accurately predict the perception of odor quality, thereby supporting the notion that spatial patterns of activity are the key factors underlying that aspect of the olfactory code. A critical analysis suggests that alternative coding mechanisms for odor quality, such as those based on temporal patterns of responses, enjoy little experimental support.
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